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Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for socialism always included attacks on individual responsibility. For if individuals do not have free will, and are not responsible for their actions, then their lives must be controlled somehow - preferably by the state - according to the socialists. They must be regulated, regimented and controlled - for their own good.

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

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.

If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.

If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

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.

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.