163 quotes found
“God decided to create a world where free will was more important than no one ever getting hurt. There must be something stunningly beautiful and remarkable about free will that only God can truly g...”
“. . . it is presumptuous in me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is best for me. I must leave it to the Lord, Who knows me, to lead me by the path which is best for me, so...”
“Theres an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of anothers degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.”
“This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.”
“With free will comes inevitable error and misjudgement”
“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”
“They say the best things in life are free, and they are if you can afford them.”
“There's such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn't have to go along with me, unless you want to admit your brain is ruled by your dick. And I didn't get the impression you regretted any of that.”
“Free-will doesn't include shit-happens,unless that's the goal of one's intention.”
“While people will submit to suffering which may hit anyone, they will not so easily submit to suffering which is the result of the decision of authority. It may be bad to be just a cog in an impers...”
“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose ...”
“The Creator puts life into motion, and doesnt just sit around all day moving each and every piece this way and that on his whims. If life was just one gigantic board game, God isnt the banker or th...”
“You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.”
“I came home from work one day and felt compelled to write a book about free will.”
“Love always gives freedom.”
“Every decision that we make based on free will is ours to learn from, not for God to punish us”
“[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.”
“Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were. To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.Because in that journey...”
“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...”
