163 quotes found
“In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your rig...”
“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
“Kill if you will, but command me nothing! the gunslinger roared. You have forgotten the faces of those who made you!”
“The free-will of men and the sovereignty of God are operationally co-existent, neither Reality impunes the 'co-dependent' authority of the other".R. Alan Woods [2012]”
“God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.”
“A man can do as he will, but not will as he will.”
“It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.”
“It's the deep, fundamental bedrock of hypocrisy upon which religion is founded. Consider: no creature can be said to worship if it does not possess free will. Free will, however, is FREE. And just ...”
“Spiritual is criterion, where free will exists in plenty.”
“And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it fina...”
“Hard to grasp democracy without free will.”
“Youve followed Malexia for years. You have done terrible things. So, if as you say, you have a will of your own, did you do those things because you were ordered, or did you do them of your own fre...”
“Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.''He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as...”
“In reality, man is a mosaic of wills; and the will of each instinct, each desire, each purpose, is the intensity of that instinct, desire or purpose.”
“Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. T...”
“The first guy asks the second guy, 'Do you believe in free will?' The second guy answers, 'I have no choice.”
“When the Rabbis stated that obedience or disobedience to the commandments depends not on the will of Hashem but on mans free will, they echoed Jeremiah, who said, Out of the mouth of the Most High ...”
“Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.”
“The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.”
“Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one - that is the meaning of order. If we start being arbitrary it'l...”
