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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to piece

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. – Richard Cecil

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Gods way of answering the Christians prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. – Richard Cecil

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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. – Richard Cecil

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God. – Jacob Boehme

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will. – Norman Cousins

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When a mans willing and eager the gods join in. – Aeschylus

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. – Chinese Proverb

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