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
The next rule is personal: the direction of one's own energy in the way of one's own will.
From The Warriors by Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown
It is said one's own will because everyone's will is his love.
From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by Ager, John
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 Whiting, Lilian
