one's own will
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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
But the precept of love cannot be fulfilled save of one's own will, wherefore it is not opposed to charity.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
The key and the secret of all noble life is to yield up one's own will, to sacrifice oneself.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander
