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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 OsteenI think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.
Joel OsteenOnly that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch SpinozaI call him free who is led solely by reason.
Baruch SpinozaAll theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel JohnsonI am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Lady GagaAgency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.
Russell M. NelsonEverywhere 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 CarlyleThere 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. LewisA man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur SchopenhauerFree will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
Charles SpurgeonMan 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 GandhiA man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
Aldous HuxleyGod is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Niccolo MachiavelliMan is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul SartreThere is nothing good or evil save in the will.
EpictetusWe’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 MeyerI 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 HawkingI 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