one's own will
Example Sentences
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Via Zoom, a minister prompted Mikayla to look in a mirror to reflect on self-empowerment and recite: “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
But because of the transforming nature of forgiveness, coupled with the experience that it involves more than one’s own will, we concluded that it has a spiritual dimension.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2015
To die, singly, in God, to die with one's own will and energy, this is not dying completely.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet
Thus end the ways of subjugating others to one's own will.
From The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Sir Richard Francis Burton
And yet—and yet—the saving gift and grace of life and achievement comes, in that there is a power higher than one's own will, on which one may lay hold with this serene and steadfast fidelity.
From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting
