“Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's the deep, fundamental bedrock of hypocrisy upon which religion is founded. Consider: no creature can be said to worship if it… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls… — Gora Copy Share Image
The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It's never been integral to the story that I take my clothes off. I've always had clauses in my contracts saying no… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
“...if in the heat of the dispute he insists and asks, 'Am I not the master of throwing myself out of the… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“In the secret recesses of man's nature the grace is given disposing and enabling him to yield. Though the will must at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t save people who didn’t want to be saved from themselves. First, they never stayed saved. Second, rescue pressed too deep… — Sarah E. Morin Copy Share Image
“If God did not arrange [the world] this way, then there must be an independent factor in the universe. And if there… — Gordon H. Clark Copy Share Image
Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Until the early 90s, when I was working on a project about the idea of free will in American philosophy. I knew… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Evil exists because of the disobedience of Satan. God gave Satan, and the angels, and man free will. Satan used his free… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
How do we receive the highest mystery of Divine love to us ? the mystery of the Christian faith? With our mind,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“To explain the matter I will employ a simile, which yet, I confess is very dissimilar; but its dissimilitude is greatly in… — James Arminius Copy Share Image
What is a human-like droid that operates from a place of free will and has been designed to have a soul? That's… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
“Had God kept from being made those who through His goodness were to have existence, but who by their own choice were… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,'… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you have done the spiritual growing up you realize that every human being is of equal importance, has work to do… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I’ve only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn’t have a pimp. She… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“ What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“But in actuality, the assumption that there is no freedom leads to the exact opposite of order in human behavior. If we… — James C. Crumbaugh Copy Share Image
“Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“But this is a general objection of the sceptical sort to all miracles of whatever kind, and leadeth anon into the quagmire… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Lenina was shocked by his blasphemy. 'Bernard!' she protested in a voice of amazed distress. 'How can you?' In a different key,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
![“If God did not arrange [the world] this way, then there must be an independent factor in the universe. And if there is such, one consequence and perhaps two follow. First, the doctrine of creation must be abandoned. A creation ex nihilo would be completely in God's control. Independent forces…” quote by Gordon H. Clark](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dbb/gordon-h-clark-48142_divine-sovereignty_if-god-did-not-arrange-the-world-this-wa_2573387.jpg)
