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The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.
Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.
...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.
The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.
The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.
You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?
If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.
The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
Show me one neuron that has some cellular semblance of free will. And there is no such neuron.
I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.
I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.
Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.
Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.
Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.
I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways.
You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.
Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.
You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.
There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.