The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Please understand something. God didn’t create evil in the world, but He did create free will, which allowed for the possibility of… — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[...T]he ways of God have been manifested beyond example: the sea is divided, the cloud has led the way, the rock has… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Harry, life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“When the battle is over, the winners find it very hard not to pursue their violence. If you are strong enough to… — Alan McCluskey Copy Share Image
I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
All of us prepare our own lunch. If we don't like our jobs, if we don't like the state of our relationships,… — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Freedom that is not fought for, that is not gained by personal sacrifice is freedom that will never last, because in the… — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
Humanist thinkers such as Rousseau convinced us that our own feelings and desires were the ultimate source of meaning and that our… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The art of making True promises within ones ownself is termed as Will (Sankalp)... for beginners (like me) it is a tough… — Dinesh Kumar Copy Share Image
Many people have criticized Islam for being just automatic, having no individuality, just surrendering your will to God, but we Muslims know… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron) Be glad I’m not physically there or I’d slap you upside the head. You know… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Joan spoke kindly, explaining patiently, as he always patiently explained things to her. “It’s like in that book you gave me, Jane… — Cate Campbell Beatty Copy Share Image
But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!"… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things.… — Kathleen McGowan Copy Share Image
A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e.… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens ) and human free will (in… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
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