Quotes About Free will

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Freedom is self-determination.

America is best described by one word, freedom.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

Never become a slave to your own thinking and your own self. Understand that you are continuously changing. But, in which way you will change is your free will.

Were all born with the same size soul, everyone is born good. It's choices along the bumpy road of life that changes us.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Perhaps all men were moved against their will. A man ordered his life, and then an obscurity of circumstance sent him down a road that was not of his own desire or choosing. Something beyond a man's immediate choice and will reached through the earth and stirred him. He did not see how any man might escape it.

I don't pretend to understand where the sovereignty of God and free will of humans meet, but it motivates me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.

If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.

However, the erosion of individual sovereignty, free will, and self-sufficiency necessarily give way to dependence, conformity, and finally tyranny.

None of us can choose where we shall love...

Why not? We do not understand, agree, or accept your ways, but we do not judge. We honor your position. You are where you are supposed to be, given your past choices and your current free will to make

Free will is a gift. Love is a choice. Hate leaves you no choice at all.

I will say something still easier. Take a single flea or louse-since you tempt and mock our God with this talk about curing a lame horse-and if, after combining all the powers and concentrating all the efforts both of your good and all your supporters, you succeed in killing it in the name of free choice, you shall be victorious, your case shall be established, and we too will come at once and worship that god of yours, that wonderful killer of the louse.

Der freie Wille sei zu nichts fähig außer zum Sündigen.

We teach that all men are naturally depraved. We condemn man's free will, his strength, wisdom, and righteousness. We say that we obtain grace by the free mercy of God alone for Christ's sake.

Y por esto mismo, su obra acerca del albedrío esclavo se convirtió al mismo tiempo en un cántico de alabanza a la libre majestad de Dios y su elección de gracia, por cuanto ambos, Dios y el hombre, recobran ahora el título correcto que les corresponde.

If all men have "free will" and yet all without exception are under God's wrath, then it follows that "free will" leads them in only one direction—"ungodliness and unrighteousness" (i.e., wickedness). So where is the power of "free will" helping them to do good? If "free will" exists, it does not seem to be able to help men to salvation because it still leaves them under the wrath of God.