Free Will Quotes

428 Free Will quotes by 307 unique authors

Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the… — H. L. Mencken
Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws. — Marvin Minsky
The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they… — Karl Popper
The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by… — Bertrand Russell
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills. — Arthur Schopenhauer
To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he… — B.F. Skinner
In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has… — Baruch Spinoza
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me. — Saint Augustine
Free will is an empty term. — John Calvin
Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin. — John Calvin
This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.' — John Calvin
they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not… — William Tyndale
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain… — John Knox
Ye [Anabaptists] be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and Papists ye are… — John Knox
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate… — John Owen
Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds" — John Owen
The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man. — Matthew Henry
Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you… — George Whitefield
I will go as far as Martin Luther, where he says, 'If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the… — Charles Spurgeon
Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing.… — Charles Spurgeon
His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature. — Charles Spurgeon
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another… — Charles Spurgeon
if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it. — Arthur W. Pink
Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction. — Louis Berkhof
The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire. — R C Sproul

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