Free Will Quotes

428 quotes by 321 authors

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up… — Richard Bach
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. — Bernard Baruch
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. — Scott Adams
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts… — Mortimer Adler
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. — Ugo Betti
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. — Aeschylus
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved. — Anselm of Canterbury
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist… — Orson Scott Card
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free… — Thomas Carlyle
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. — Agatha Christie
Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to… — John Hospers
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace. — Thomas Bradwardine
No free will of the creature can resist the will of God — Girolamo Zanchi
we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from grace and regeneration. — Henry Ainsworth
many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will. — Daniel Featley
It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those… — Peter du Moulin
The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the natural fruits of man's depraved… — William Jenkyn
A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power… — Augustus Toplady
The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean… — Francis Turretin

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