Quotes About Free will

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Shoket: ... You've got physics and cosmology closing in on the age-old problem of why there's something rather than nothing—that's one you philosophers, not to speak of theologians, have been chewing over a while. With we neuroscientists explaining consciousness, free will, and morality, what's left for the philosophers to ponder? Plato: Perhaps self-deception?

Another metaphorical moral seems built into these two structures, for the maze offers the confusions of free will without a clear destination, the labyrinth an inflexible route to salvation.

Of course there's destiny, but destiny doesn't push you where you don't want to go. You're the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

We are all. Free. To do. What- ever. We want. To do.

Miss Fergusson had maintained, when they first stood before the haloed mountain, that there were two explanations of everything, that each required the exercise of faith, and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them. This dilemma was to preoccupy Miss Logan for years to come. 7

The end of the story is of your making, nobody else's. You can do with it as you choose. There are as many paths open to your hero as branches on a great tree. They are wonderful and terrible, and plain and twisted. They touch and part and intermingle, and you can follow them whatever way you will.

Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.

You don't kidnap somebody if you love them. They come to you. They choose you. Not the other way around.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

The sin both of men and of angels was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.

It is up to man to be an angel or a devil! You become whatever you choose to be!

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.

An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.

Evil is a choice one makes, not a natural state of being.

The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.