It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present.… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
God is never at a loss because He cannot find someone to cooperate with Him in carrying out His plan. He so… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:… — Jon Meacham 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
“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
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
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
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
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it… — Jacobus Arminius Copy Share Image
Reality is on a delay. For you, nothing is now. Realizing this fact is unsettling. If we can only react to the… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
“Attempting to constantly control everyone and everything around you is not only exhausting...it is also futile. The only real power you can… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Meg,” he whispered. “It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The fact that the underlying laws of physics are deterministic and impersonal does not mean that at the human level we can't… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The Bible puts forth a strong case for no free will and that's a real problem you know, because the justification for… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left… — John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a choice, To make a choice is utilizing your freewill to choose. Courage is getting out of your own way… — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge,… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That… — John Owen Copy Share Image
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With every sunrise, we get to choose ... who we are, what we believe, and how we will live the life the… — Nicole Y. Walters Copy Share Image
[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I was angry at God until I came to understand that it isn't God's fault when people mistreat me. I still have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A predator is what you are, and nothing you can do will change that. But being a killer is a choice you… — Obie Williams Copy Share Image
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