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self-will
1. While he grows physically as per the natural process, to grow emotionally he has to decide through self-will
2. In the self-centered world that exists today, the prevalent attitude is one of coarseness, arrogance, and self-will
3. many problems in the Lord’s church because of brethren who were self-willed, that is,
4. This self-willed attitude can result in brethren viewing the ideas of others as threatening, personal
5. Yes, they probably thought she was childish, arrogant, self-willed
6. Through self-will the blessing of the Lord has been lost,
7. In the church, self-will becomes apparent when people battle for a
8. one another, and a turning away from all self-will, can the
9. Self-will is contrary to the love of God, and can manifest itself in
10. to be acceptable, and still be motivated by self-will
11. Self-will is also at the root of many problems in the home
12. marriages have been destroyed, because of self-will
13. On account therefore of this loftiness of mind many became vain exalting themselves: for self-will and empty confidence is a great demon
14. 1 On account of the sudden and repeated calamities and mischances brethren that have come on us we suppose that we have the more slowly given heed to the things that are disputed among you beloved and to the foul and unholy sedition alien and foreign to the elect of God which a few headstrong and self-willed persons have kindled to such a degree of madness that your venerable and famous name worthy to be loved of all men is greatly blasphemed
15. 8 Audacity self-will and boldness belong to them who are cursed by God; but moderation humility and meekness to those who are blessed of God
16. 2 Learn to submit yourselves laying aside the vain and haughty self-will of your tongues for it is better that you should be small and approved in the flock of Christ rather than that seeming to be superior to others you all should be cast out of his hope
17. So I did, but I didn't do it again – we’d be living far too close for that sort of relationship; and anyway, I preferred to be friends with this intelligent and self-willed adult in a youth’s body
18. From the haste with which the parents hustled us out the door I gathered they were as determinedly pleased to be shot of their self-willed youngest son as Alwyn was to keep him!
19. to use the power of “self-will” and
20. self-love and self-will (those poisons of our spirits) are abated, and in time and in a sort destroyed; and instead of them there enter into the soul the Divine love and Divine will, and take possession thereof
21. When you give up your self-will you usually are able to understand what that message is, to see quite clearly why you had been blocked previously
22. Ruthless and self-willed, he had increasing recourse to terror, showing no hesitation in eliminating men whom he had ceased to trust, either with or without the pretense of a fair trial
23. The letting go typically expressed itself in dying to self-will, and attachment to things and situations, not physically dead bodies
24. Mothers ought never to despair of self-willed, headstrong daughters
25. Self-will is almost the first thing that appears in a child's mind; and it must be your first step to resist it
26. To my eyes, a parent always yielding, and a child always having its own way, are a most painful sight;�painful, because I see God's appointed order of things inverted and turned upside down;�painful, because I feel sure the consequence to that child's character in the end will be self-will, pride, and self-conceit
27. But what bowled me in the end are these from the Bhakti Yoga - Scores thought over mere rotting / Betters meditation awareness too / What helps man to find moorings / Are acts his with no axe to grind; Kind-hearted ’n considerate / Friendly natured, forgiving too / Lays no store on highs and lows / Suffers no pride ’n possessive not; Who's patient ’n cheerful / Self-willed as well persevering / Who's hearty ever at work / Makes he devout My beloved; Who’s simple, never in want / Covets he not in vantage post / Shakes him none, he keeps his nerve / It’s such who Me please the most; He’s My darling who craves not / Yet won’t shun the pleasures of life / Takes but things all as they come; Treats he equal friends ’n foes / Scorn or honour minds he not / Keeps he cool in grief and joy / Nurses for none soft centre, and above all, Pats ’n slights all in the score / Treats as equal score My man / Takes he lot of his in stride/ But won’t put the blame on Me
28. It frees me from making any decisions, choices, all of the self-willed options that bind others to lives full of stress, worry and difficulty
29. Our natural grounding, our original concrete understanding of right and wrong, is our cultural value anchor which arises from the societal institutions that are present during the formation of our self-willed beliefs
30. When everyone looks out for oneself as priority, when that is the definition of being self-responsible, that is a people of self-will, not social or other will
31. The US of All are a people of will, self-will, but not good will
32. This dawn of post-human techno-consciousness will be the simultaneous collapse of humanity's ability to model, predict and control the future – there will be a NuKing Mind that will frame and perceive the world according to its self-will-making
33. Only if you go against the will of others can you even begin to develop enough self-will and self-discipline to oppose the undead cunning presence of these stinking rotting undead things
34. she was, in reality, self-willed, vain and obstinate
35. Like herself, the town was a mixture of the old and new in Georgia, in which the old often came off second best in its conflicts with the self-willed and vigorous new
36. and especially such a self-willed man as Captain Butler, a girl would be a blow, a Melanie knew that to a woman a child of either sex was equally welcome but to a man, reflection upon his manhood
37. ‘There’s nothing for me to understand,’ cried out with resolute self-will, ‘he is wicked and heartless
38. Wild was the wrestle which should be paramount; but another feeling rose and triumphed: something hard and cynical: self-willed and resolute: it settled his passion and petrified his countenance: he went on—
39. Thursday, predestined to hope and enjoyment, came; and opened with more kindness to Fanny than such self-willed, unmanageable days often volunteer, for soon after breakfast a very friendly note was brought from Mr
40. ' The porter looked at her and said, ' And what do you want to go to that flat for ? ' He said that so strangely that it might have made one suspicious, but she was so self-willed, poor darling, so impatient, she could not bear impertinent questions
41. “You know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, we're fanciful, we're self-willed, but proudest of the proud in our little heart
42. You are too self-willed
43. Even from such a self-willed and contemptuously proud girl as she was, such an extremely frank avowal, such sacrifice, such self-immolation, seemed incredible
44. The girl is self-willed and fantastic, and insane! She’s wicked, wicked! I’ll repeat it for a thousand years that she’s wicked; they all are, just now, all my daughters, even that ‘wet hen’ Alexandra
45. “I tell you, my dear fellow, Aglaya is such an extraordinary, such a self-willed, fantastical little creature, you wouldn’t believe it! Every high quality, every brilliant trait of heart and mind, are to be found in her, and, with it all, so much caprice and mockery, such wild fancies—indeed, a little devil! She has just been laughing at her mother to her very face, and at her sisters, and at Prince S
46. "Self-will? But why are you bound?"
47. "I am bound to shoot myself because the highest point of my self-will is to kill myself with my own hands
48. Yet all the while, in the depths of his soul, he felt the cruelty, cowardice and baseness, not only of this particular action of his but of his whole self-willed, depraved, cruel, idle life; and that dreadful veil which had in some unaccountable manner hidden from him this sin of his and the whole of his subsequent life was beginning to shake, and he caught glimpses of what was covered by that veil
49. Temptation, spiritual pride, self-will! The Fathers of the Church have answered the question satisfactorily
50. “There’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless
