Free Will Quotes - Page 3

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law.

A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

Easy to keep faith. God is good. Only one mistake he made. Free will, therefore can't intervene unless we ask, but gospels show, when we ask we must believe we will be answered. Then all manner of things will be well.

The greatest gift God gave us is also our greatest curse, which is the free will. We are made in God's image, the Bible says, which means we have the ability to love him or not love him, to reject him or not reject him.

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.