Top Free Will Quotes

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

Free Will Definition

() A will free from improper coercion or restraint.

() The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.

The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.

A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a...

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.

In the secret recesses of man's nature the grace is given disposing and enabling him to yield. Though the will must at last act from its own resources and deliberate impulse, it is influenced through...

I am not a Sunday morning inside four wallswith clean bloodand organized drawers.I am the hurricane setting fire to the forestsat night when no one else is aliveor awakehowever you choose to see itand...

If God knows the number of hairs on your head he already knew where you will go after you're dead

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections...

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making,...

You don't need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

Insofar as it is true, the idea that our actions or beliefs are merely one link in a causal link that runs back to the beginning of the universe is making a trivial claim. Insofar as it is saying some...

I've come to realize that life is neither a battle nor a game to be won, it is a game nonetheless, but to be played... enjoyed. There are neither winners nor losers... just players--and what's great i...

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it...

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space....

Limits are always extended, never broken.

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.