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In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

In our current understanding of science, we can't find the physical gap in which to slip free will - the uncaused causer - because there seems to be no part of the machinery that does not follow in a causal relationship from the other parts.

It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.

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.

... love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.

[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.

I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.

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

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to.

My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.

One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather he makes it known and allows us to choose if we will follow it.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

The greatest gift God gave us is also our greatest curse, which is the free will. We are made in God's image, the Bible says, which means we have the ability to love him or not love him, to reject him or not reject him.

The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.

The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals.

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways.

We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

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

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

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!