Editors' note: Many people who are called strong-willed in fact merely have strong desires, which most often come from the body. When you desire you are reacting to a stimulus whereas if you use will you act consciously. If you envisage desire and its associated wilfulness as on a horizontal line through past, present and future, then will is on a vertical line and comes down to man if he works for it as a force from God, a form of grace.