Quotes about Freewill
God has paid an awful price to arrange for human self-determination. He obviously places great value on it. It is, after all, the only way he can get the kind of personal beings he desires for his eternal purposes. And just as we are not to try to manipulate others with impressive language of any kind (Matt. 5:37), so we are not to harass them into rightness and goodness with our condemnings and our "pearls" or holy things.
— Dallas Willard
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
— George Eliot
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
— George Eliot
Though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
— Herman Melville
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.
— Ayn Rand
We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, "If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.
— Stephen Covey
While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.
— Stephen Covey
I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O Lord, for it is good. (Ps. 54:6)
— Beth Moore
Our families cannot choose Christ for us. Our friends cannot do it. God is a great God, but even God can't make the decision for us . . .we have to make our own choice.
— Billy Graham
The destiny of your own soul is in your own hands by the choice you make.
— Billy Graham
I believe that - love is a choice. I believe that we love, that if I'm forced to love you then I don't know that I've really loved you.
— Rick Warren
Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
— Anne Frank