Economics is also an effective theory, based on the notion of free will plus the assumption that people evaluate their possible alternative courses of action and choose the best. That effective theory is only moderately successful in predicting behavior because, as we all know, decisions are often not rational or are based on a defective analysis of the consequences of the choice. This is why the world is in such a mess.

I don't try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.

You don't command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails.

The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that's what's going to define your life.

You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

To answer your question of why Adam and Eve were given a choice in the first place, they had to be given a choice. God had to create space for them to choose Him.

A man with vision has a certain look in his eye and walk in his step. He walks like he knows where he is going and why he is going there, and George didn't walk like that.

Hãy tin r?ng m?i th? x?y ra trên ??i này ??u có nguyên do c?a nó...

Rule #1 You're the Driver of Your Bus.

there is no way that the Will can determine an act of the Will, than by willing that act of the Will, or, which is the same thing, choosing it.

Because if the Will be already inclined, before it exerts its own sovereign power on itself, then its inclination is not wholly owing to itself: