Free will Quote by John Paul II

“God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them.”

— R.M. ArceJaeger

“There’s an irresolvable tension that exists between God’s sovereignty and man’s free will. He never forces man to act or prevents him from acting.…

— Paula Wiseman

God does not redeem the personal man by death. He redeems himself by freeing himself from the personality of man.

— Franz Hartmann

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with…

— Saint Augustine

“We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God’s will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of…

— Kevin DeYoung

“God sovereignly decreed that man should be free to exercise moral choice, and man from the beginning has fulfilled that decree by making his…

— A.W. Tozer

“Nothing happens without God’s will, and life doesn’t always go according to plan. Man proposes, God disposes. And it is God’s will that we…

— Kristiane Backer

“tis plain and manifest, that whatever pains a natural man takes in religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ, God is…

— Jonathan Edwards

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the…

— Jakob Bohme

The secret of following God's will is wrapped in rejecting the good for God's best.

— K.P. Yohannan

“God has a way of working things out according to His will.”

— Shana Burton

“whenever God is pleased to make way for his providence, he even in external matters so turns and bends the wills of men, that…

— John Calvin