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Quotes about Freewill

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?
— Albert Camus
Belief, like love, must be voluntary.
— John Updike
The One Forbidden Thing. Remember Bluebeard, who says to his wife, "Don't open that closet"? And then one always disobeys. In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.
— Joseph Campbell
In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.
— Joseph Campbell
The message could not be any clearer; God provides, and we choose.
— Joyce Meyer
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
— John Henry Newman
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
— GK Chesterton
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
— William Law