#will

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all. ↗

— David Livingstone

#good #i #know #men #only

It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn't seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God. ↗

— Maria Augusta von Trapp

#inspirational #tapestry #beauty

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#god #love #loving #men #will

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

#every #kill #lose #men #odds

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#god-s-will #nature

One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#religion #willful-ignorance #religion

if you can imagine it, you can achieve it, if you can dream it, you can become it ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#dreams

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#good-will #patience #science

In that case" Tessa said, feeling hot blood rise to her face,"I think I would prefer it if you called me by my Christian name, as you do with Miss Lovelace. Will look at her, slow and hard, then smiled. His blue eyes lit when he smiled. "Then you must do the same for me," he said. "Tessa." She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing if for the first time-the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath. Her own breath was very short when he said, softly, "Will." "Yes?" Amusement glittered his eyes. With a sort of horror Tessa realized that she had simply said his name for the sake of saying it; she hadn't actually had a question. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#william-herondale #smile

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth." "But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began. "Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jessamine-lovelace #journalism #newspapers #will-herondale #society