Free Will quotes

19 quotes

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Joel Osteen

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Joel Osteen

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Baruch Spinoza

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Baruch Spinoza

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Samuel Johnson

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

Lady Gaga

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

Russell M. Nelson

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Thomas Carlyle

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

C. S. Lewis

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Mahatma Gandhi

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Jean-Paul Sartre

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Epictetus

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Joyce Meyer

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Stephen Hawking

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

Paulo Coelho