Quotes About Free will

If the human mind makes decisions based on factors, causes, and influences not chosen by the mind itself, then these decisions are not free.

Salvation is wholly the work of God, so that no one may boast of his works or his good sense in choosing Christ and believing the gospel (John 15:16; Ephesians 2:8). Even after a person has become a Christian, he still has no free will: "It is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

His life teaches us that our faithfulness to God is not something that is inherent in our personality, nor do we have the "free will" to simply decide to become loyal disciples. But our faithfulness to the Lord is itself a work of his sovereign grace, so that if we are faithful to him, it is not he who owes us, but it is we who owe him! There is no place for boasting, but only for praise and gratitude.

Thus "free will" is Satan's slogan, and Arminianism is his creed. On the other hand, the Christian faith declares, "Salvation comes from the LORD" (Jonah 2:9) – really and wholly from God.

we can credit our salvation only to God's sovereign appointment, and not to a person's choice to follow Christ. This is because a person's choice is not free, but God is the one who causes his choice (Romans 9:18), so that no one may boast before him.

Arminianism says that it is man who chooses whether he will accept Christ, but Jesus says, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit – fruit that will last" (John 15:16).

It's just as you please, it will always be just as you please from now on.

The person is the highest creation of God only because God gives it the possibility of love, therefore of refusal.

He wanted a race of men who would no longer depend upon free will, ethics, morals or conscience for guidance. Perhaps, without quite realizing it, Marx was setting out to create a race of human beings conditioned to think like criminals.

Not even God, with all his power, can force a human being to love.

But here in the Lager there are no criminals nor madmen; no criminals because there is no moral law to contravene, no madmen because we are wholly devoid of free will, as our every action is, in time and place, the only conceivable one.

There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals.

I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town." "Depends on the human," Claire said. "As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn't vote him to be in charge.

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.

All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

The darkness was not an absence of light, but an absence of meaning, for meaning arose only from the exercise of free will.

Fate isn't a straight road, I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work. People are doing the Devil's work everywhere you go; there's no avoiding it unless you go live on a mountaintop somewhere, a hundred miles from everyone.

journeying through the fields of evil is the price we pay for free will

Because we have free will, our tomorrows are never determined until we make them day by day.

And because your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will, if you entertain too much anxiety about too many things, if you place no trust in providence, what you fear will more often come to pass. We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable

I understand why the world is shapen as it is, that we should have free will and be more than ants, that we must know evil if we're also to know good.