Free Will Quotes

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.

I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.

The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it would do, were it to inhibit or hinder the use of free will in man. . .

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.