Wills Quotes

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.