Quotes About Free will

I believe that - love is a choice. I believe that we love, that if I'm forced to love you then I don't know that I've really loved you.

For minds and cogitation are, to Leibniz, the ultimate reality, and unless the minds have free will, they are not minds at all but physical mechanisms numbly obeying deterministic rules.

In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.

Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will! He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man.

As an act recedes into the past and becomes imbedded in the network of one's individuality it seems more and more a product of fate - - inevitable. However, an act in the immediate present seems to be more a product of free will.

As an act recedes into the past and becomes imbedded in the network of one's individuality it seems more and more a product of fate – – inevitable. However, an act in the immediate present seems to be more a product of free will.

No one asks a robot what he wants.

And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?

How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?

How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?" This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.

I have often wondered if a person's life follows a path that is laid out long before he or she ever takes a first step. Or are we in control of what happens to us?

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

there is no greater force within creation than the free will of beings endowed with self-consciousness and spiritual intellect; and so the misuse of this free will can have altogether terrifying consequences.

Whether or not true free will exists, virtually all human beings act as if it does, and evaluate each other on the basis of their ability to make what they believe to be genuine moral choices.

The subject of free will is neither the intellect, nor the will, but both faculties conjointly.

The power structure draws its validity and strength solely from the existence of the people's struggle. In practice it is the people who choose a power structure of their own free will and not the power structure that suffers the people. (139)

man's being is essentially his own deed .

Humans have free will. Free will is the ability to make irrational decisions.

Life tosses us all hither and thither. Is there anything we can truly decide for ourselves?

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

I've always felt like we're all human beings and we're all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How we treat other people. How we treat ourselves. Just the whole philosophy of that and the philosophical logic of that is that we're all capable of great acts of evil, and we're all capable of great acts of good.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and to have sins.

Machinations are divined. Response is by nature, nurture, experience and if sought peer pressure. You are the owner of free will. Choose.