Quotes About Free will

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.

Your damnation is your own election, not God's.

Every person in every generation has a choice: to obey God or to do his own thing.

No free will of the creature can resist the will of God

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

I'm not there to impose my religious beliefs on anybody, or say 'this is the only way you should think'. It's up to you to decide, and God is a God of free will.

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.