Free Will Quotes - Page 18

• A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Giving, Monsters

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• Enter freely and of your own free will!

  Bram Stoker

  Count Dracula

  Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.25, Book Jungle

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• If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Moon, Men

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• Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic!

  Alison Gopnik

  Kids, Thinking, Realistic

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?

  Baron d'Holbach

  Independent, Thinking, Desire

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• The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems... There was a time when I thought it was a nuisance to be confronted with a problem. I tried to get rid of it. I tried to get somebody else to solve it for me. But that was a long time ago. It was a great day in my life when I discovered the wonderful purpose of problems. Yes, they have a wonderful purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Law, Long, Great Day

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• Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Thinking, Realizing, Force

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.244, Feiwel & Friends

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• I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.

  Janet Morris

  God, Next, Can Do

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• Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

  John Owen

  Self, Mind, Beloved

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.150

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• The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Fickle, Decree

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.966

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• Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'

  George Whitefield

  Men, Heaven, Grace

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• if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Sovereign, Servant, Ifs

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.161, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose boat is on the running stream. But I count you blessed [...] for your loss you suffer of your own free will, and you might have chosen otherwise. But you have not forsaken your companions, and the least reward that you shall have is that the memory of Lothlórien shall remain ever clear and unstained in your heart, and shall neither fade nor grow stale.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Memories, Blessed

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.

  Janet Morris

  Responsibility, Fate, Destiny

  Janet Morris (1989). “Tempus Unbound”, Pocket Books

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• Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.

  Janet Morris

  Long Ago, Soul, Embodiment

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• The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the natural fruits of man's depraved and frail free-will.

  William Jenkyn

  Believe, Heart, Men

  "An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London".

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• i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Winning, Past

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• you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Needs, Four

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• It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those things that pertain to faith and salvation.

  Peter du Moulin

  Men, Liberty, Scripture

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• You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Want, What You Want

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• many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

  Daniel Featley

  Men, Liberty, Too Much

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• When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behavior is the result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth, and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination... When a motorcar fails to start, we do not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, we do not say, you are a wicked motorcar, and you shall not have any more gasoline until you go.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Men, Long

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• In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.

  Garth Stein

  Wall, Eye, Track

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from grace and regeneration.

  Henry Ainsworth

  Believe, Men, Evil

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• It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

  Jean Nidetch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive Thinking

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