It is only as we thus become energetic by the yielding to God of our wills that He can go on to His desired work.
He wills that we bring forth fruit, and the fruit that He wills that we bring forth is the Fruit of the Spirit.
We kneel and offer to Him our wills and ask that they may be made good, and kept good in union with His most holy will.
It means that our Lord has chosen her to be a special medium of approval to Him, and that through her prayers He wills to bestow upon men many of His choicest gifts.
He may give us new insight into their meaning, He may stir our wills to correspondence with their teaching, He may kindle our hearts by the evidence of the divine love that He presses home.
But our Lord, while He does not suffer as the result of His own sin, does suffer as the result of sin in that He wills to bear the result of men's sin by putting Himself at their mercy.
He Whose will it is that we should pray for one another, wills too that the prayers of His Blessed Mother should be at the disposal of all who call upon her.
We have every claim upon their sympathy because they are fellow-members of the same Body; and we know, too, that He Who has made us one in His Body wills that we should receive His graces through our mutual ministrations.
If he be God and wills goodness, why does He not execute goodness, use power to accomplish it?
We are perfectly certain of the will of God: God wills that all men shall come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved.
Because of this, the diverse wills opposing and clashing with one another, the world is a war of all against all and of everything literally against everything; and the world is a scene of carnage.
All beings arewills which possess organs conformed to their purpose.
It was a common practice, when the body was embalmed, to take out the heart and bowels, and inter them in a different church to that in which the body was buried; testators sometimes made a request in their wills for this to be done.
The convents were probably at first recruited almost entirely from these two ranks of society, and a study of any collection of medieval wills shows how large a proportion of such families took advantage of this opening for women.
An investigation of the wills enrolled in the Court of Husting shows the relative popularity of different convents among the citizens of London.
Medieval wills (our most trusty source of information for the personnel of the nunneries) make it possible to gauge the extent to which the upper and middle classes used the nunneries as receptacles for superfluous daughters.
It was sometimes even necessary to forbid nuns to make wills and bequeath their property.
WILLS Calendar of Wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, ed.
Testamenta Eboracensia, a Selection of Willsfrom the Registry at York, ed.
The wills of London burgesses, which were enrolled in the Court of Husting, show that the daughters of these well-to-do citizens were in the habit of taking the veil.
The Fifty Earliest English Willsin the Court of Probate, London, ed.
A less usual privilege was that of the Abbess of Marham, who possessed the right of proving the wills of those who died within the precincts or jurisdiction of the house[287].
For all that he wills he is, and can do, and puts into action.
But this cannot result from that loose indulgence which naturally pampers body and soul, weakening men’s wills for facing danger and their bodies for work.
And shall we not hold in higher honour her character and that authority which enables her to do what she will, since what she wills is the good of all?
But at the season of the sacred ceremonies we ought to exert those wills to the utmost so that we may attain to what is beyond our ordinary physical powers, and thus may be eager and willing to obey the divine ordinances.
Our wills are free from law, as enforced by power; but are free under law, as enforced by punishment.
The present settled state of ourwills is the result of former decisions.
It is completely restored in sinners when the Spirit of Christ gains control of their wills and they merge their life in his.
Nothing is too high or low, Too mean or mighty, if God wills it so.
Since moral evil is a germ capable of indefinite expansion, God's determining the measure of its growth does not alter its character or involve God's complicity with the perverse wills which cherish it.
Causation in our own wills enables us to see something besides mere antecedence and consequence in the world about us.
Continuous creation is an erroneous theory because it applies to human wills a principle which is true only of irrational nature and which is only partially true of that.
And God, though He has devised the most infinitely complete and beautiful and costly scheme of redemption for man, will none the less fail unless the individual man wills to co-operate with Him.
For belike not only Xerxes, but Leonidas also, had whipsters following his camp, by whom the Thebans were scourged and forced against their wills to fight.
It is as thou sayest; Allah wills that thou shouldst make this journey, for He has sent me into thy life at the moment of thy need.
Then they cannot be called gods, Gods whose wills are counteracted.
Since you taught me, you, dear master, That the union of two wills In our law is well established.
When thewills and the ways of these two clashed--well, Jerusha had lived many years and knew a thing or two by experience that niece Geraldine had yet to learn.
Now here she writes, and wills me to repent: Repentance!
Take in the staff too, for that must be shown: Law wills that each particular be known.
In the wills of the clergy they themselves describe their "togas" of gay colours, trimmed with various furs, and their ornamented girdles and purses, and make no secret of the objectionable knives and baselards.
As to the furniture of the parsonage, the wills of the clergy supply us with ample authorities.
And I wait, submissive to His will, for nothing happens unless He wills it.
And you should see with what supple talent and craft he has performed his task, to such a point indeed that it is now he alone who wills and orders things.
We should wish, indeed, for only what God wills and sends, and we should avoid pride and haughtiness as well as discontent, and seek to fulfil our allotted part.
Their hard and rigid wills were rarely moved by the cries of agony or the shrieks of despair.
But Wills could not be made to recognize anything singular in the affair.
But the power which wills Bears not supreme control: laughter and tears Follow so closely on the passion prompts them, They wait not for the motions of the will In nature most sincere.
Return unto thy science," answers Virgil, "which wills that as a thing more perfect is the more it feels of pleasure and of pain.
Whereat, she promptly and with laughing eyes: 'Our charity doth never shut the doors Against a just desire, except as she Who wills that all her court be like herself.
Mr. Justice Wills has admirably described the first ascent, and the impression it made upon him, in a paper which has become classical for succeeding adventurers.
The spirit dwells in this invisible church,--the holy spirit that wills the unity of all in fidelity and in service.
Faust never {203} wills the evil, he loves Margaretha sincerely, but the bad spirit urges him onward.
Usually in the long struggle between these two indomitable wills Miss Bennett had been on Joe Thorne's side, coarse, violent man though he was, for she was old-fashioned and believed that children ought to obey.
But from the very first their two wills had clashed in small matters--in questions of invitations, manners, Lydia's dress.
But mustn't talk of that--where God wills is all right.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wills" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
