Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Make every act an offering to me (God) regard me as your only protector. Relying on interior discipline, meditate on me always. Remembering me, you shall overcome all difficulties through my grace. But if you will not heed me in your self-will, nothing will avail you.
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. . . . Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world. . . . He is power, passion, self-will personified.
Pride is characterized by 'What do I want out of life' rather than by 'What would God have me do with my life' It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.
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