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 grant nothing to duty or the law, to be guided entirely by one's own will, retaining perfect independence—what could be more attractive, more honorable?
From Letters of Two Brides by Balzac, Honoré de
It is terrifying to lose sense of the reality of things, to lose one's own will, to feel that one is merely a stone that has been set rolling.
From Sister Teresa by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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
