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

Our life is not in our own hands; but we all have one anchor, from which one can never, without one's own will, be torn—a sense of duty.'

From The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

The idea of sacrificing to one's god, not the lives of men, but one's own will and selfish desires, was entirely new to him.

From Days of the Discoverers by Choate, Florence

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 Michelet, Jules