I’ve been coerced into free will.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.

There may not be any romance to mental illness but who needs romance when the preferable route is agency? The prevailing conversation around mental health issues is agency and the lack thereof on the part...

There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen: karma and free will. The question is, ‘how are you...

This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given…

Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.

Take the Holocaust for example: Why did God allow Hitler to kill millions of innocent Jews? Because God didn’t want to step on Hitler’s toes and interfere with his free will? That’s a pretty lame...

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely...

Our fated untainted soul gives us free reign, only doth backward pull our clouded minds when we ourselves falsely protect from pain.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

Every day is a blank canvas to use our free will to create something beautiful for our Creator.

God’s greatest gift to manIn all the bounty He was moved to makeThroughout creation-the one gift the mostClose to his goodness and the one He callsMost precious-is free will.

There was as much joy in surrendering free will as exercising it.

To explain the matter I will employ a simile, which yet, I confess is very dissimilar; but its dissimilitude is greatly in favour of my sentiments. A rich man bestows, on a poor and famishing...

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these – how we exercise what some refer to as free will – is everything; the choices...

Free will and choice implies that you are able to even re-write your record of memories.

Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the Dragonflame philosophy they become superior artistic beings able to enjoy...

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I...

Nič ni resnično, vse je dovoljeno.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they’re more powerful than most things.

You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That’s the divine contract of a little something we call free will.

The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.

Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.

Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen’s inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi once called the ‘grey zone’ of human affairs, described by the historian Christopher...

En travaux pratiques de physique, n’importe quel collégien peut faire des expériences pour vérifier l’exactitude d’une hypothèse scientifique. Mais l’homme, parce qu’il n’a qu’une seule vie, n’a aucune possibilité de vérifier l’hypothèse par l’expérience de...

No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the...

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It’s almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was ‘free will’ that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and...

God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but...

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act…

…free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

made-up stories” about oneself and, thus, reality. Because of this quantum factor, we have absolute Free Will to attract optimum realities from infinite, simultaneous Evolutionary Potentials. Thus, according to Kuan Yin, where and how skillfully...

Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were. To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.Because in that journey was where...

A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person oridea. The cults described in this book use violent tactics to recruit,indoctrinate, and keep members. Ritual abuse is defined as...

Free will…it’s all the rage these days

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

Stubbornness” is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.

Christianity tells us we have free will. God has provided man with a choice whether to believe in Him or not. If God’s existence were logically inescapable, there would be no free will to choose...

Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.

There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do not believe in a god, who do they believe gives the Universal Law...

Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

Every life is a mystery. And every story of every life is a mystery. But it is not what happens that is the mystery. It is whether it has to happen no matter what, whether...

Life’s no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe’s my own to fool with.

The idea of original sin–of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives–inherently militates against self-esteem. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as...

True love is built on free will and free choice, not control and manipulation.

Destiny is variable, not fixed; it is forever changing depending upon your free will to make choices for what you want your life to be.

The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither...