Translation of "Willensschwäche" in English

"In the 19th century, drug addiction was regarded as a sign of akrasia, immorality, or weakness of the will.

That you've placed this lack of will into a fantastic system.

The weakness of will is lack of love power.

Professor Hofmann is fascinated by human willpower and weak will:

Every weakness of will is used by him in order to cause him harm.

It is not normal sadness, nor a breakdown, nor a weakness of will!

I left, furious at myself for my momentary weakness of will.

The opponent took advantage of the weakness of will of men and exercised stronger and stronger influence on them.

The world’s dictators, of course, know exactly what to make of the international community’s failure of will and inability to coordinate effective measures.

Too many people dismiss mental illnesses as problems of character or lack of will, rather than recognizing them as serious, often fatal, medical disorders.

And your weakness will always manifest itself such that you are not yet able to completely detach yourselves from the world....

Man is weak without my help – for this weakness of will is the natural result of his distance from me through the former sin against me.

This spiritual blindness is coupled with complete helplessness and a weakness of will which is unable to shake off its lethargy.

However, without faith in Him and His act of Salvation the human being will never be able to overcome his lack of strength and weakness of will, he will never be able to lift himself up because God's adversary keeps him down and wants to prevent his life in eternity.

Can you discard the feeling that you are dealing only with habit, with stubbornness, or a weak will?

The court also took the view that due to his "sexual compulsiveness and existing weakness of will, Friedrich Ehlert, "as a typical homosexual, represents a great danger to the public, particularly to male youths, prompting the court to order his committal to a sanatorium and nursing home in accordance with Sec. 42 b of the Reich Criminal Code after the prison term.

For the time has come when extreme weakness of will and unbelief can only provoke this catastrophe.

And these are signs of a near end that men live without God, and without faith and without love they also walk in dark night, in error, and their weakness of will is not able to cause a change.

Also the souls wrapped up in complete lethargy can likewise have to tolerate their agonizing lot endless long time, when not help comes from one side, since they alone cannot help themselves, because of their weakness of will.

What was impossible to achieve before Jesus’ sacrificial death, due to people’s weakness of will who were still burdened by the original sin, was possible for people to achieve after his crucifixion, because they were granted the strength if they acknowledged Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world and laid claim to His help.

There are, as a rule, human laws which intend to uphold worldly order, the fulfilment of which are therefore effectively necessary in order to combat people’s weak will, for many people would not carry out what they are duty-bound to do if a sense of duty had not been cultivated in them.