Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
“On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What a thing of free will to be in the air and to have that much control over one's directionality, up, down,… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate. — Lucy Hawking Copy Share Image
What's freedom without free land, What's life without free will. What is a body without a soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Maybe none of us can choose who we love, Cas. None of the lucky ones, anyway. The only choice we have is… — Vicki Keire Copy Share Image
I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ...… — Josephine Lawrence Copy Share Image
If we want to try again, then try again. The point is we have free will to act and accomplish along with… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out or own actions. And our actions have… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
I'm sick and tired of people saying that taking drugs is a sickness. When you put something of your own free will… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I think the idea of freedom or liberty is really misused for political reasons, but it's something that resonates with people to… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“Freedom isn't an illusion; it's perfectly real in the context of sequential consciousness. Within the context of simultaneous consciousness, freedom is not… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervillain. I think I'd be a supervillain that would exercise some form of… — Jemaine Clement Copy Share Image
“Writing on this subject in 1904 Freud gave the reason for our unshakable conviction of freedom of choice. He remarked that it… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
“It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“We have choice,” she insisted. “This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds" — John Owen Copy Share Image
I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“Somewhere out there, a higher form of sadism, won the first round. Well, screw that. I'm not ready to be pwned.” — Clyde Dsouza Copy Share Image
“There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our… — St. Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways. — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image
As a Christian man, I serve a God that allows you free will to be whoever you want to be. — Mark Jackson Copy Share Image
if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Residue of pain may remain but, your will power can fully release you from the suffering. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image