“The free-will of men and the sovereignty of God are operationally co-existent, neither Reality impunes the 'co-dependent' authority of the other". R.… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
“She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she can’t even imagine the next morning, but it… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now… — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe… — Umberto Eco 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
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
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
I do belive in fate. It's hard to accept that it's maybe not possible to change anything and I don't really like… — Louis Hofmann Copy Share Image
Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Intuition goes before you, showing you the way. Emotion follows behind, to let you know when you go astray. Listen to your… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“This secular Leftist denial of human free will is one of the reasons the Left recoils from labeling evil as evil, and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Love is a compulsion you can’t subdue; an irresistible force, one can’t restrain! It’s not in our control, no matter how hard… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with… — Tarsem Singh Copy Share Image
[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
“If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
We must wholeheartedly believe in free will. If free will is a reality, we shall have made the correct choice. If it… — Edward Norton Lorenz Copy Share Image
“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species,… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
“We must exude a sense of proportional gratitude that humankind’s exquisite texture is composed of a feeling soul and an intelligent will,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Animals learn early on that man holds dominion over them. Man on the other hand takes a bit longer to learn. Man… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
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![“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/quotes/i/dbb/gordon-h-clark-48142_divine-sovereignty_if-god-did-not-arrange-the-world-this-wa_2573387.jpg)
![“[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37e/oliver-d-crisp-12863_book_jonathan-edwards-definitely-shows-up-in_710749.jpg)
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