#free will

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#belongs #everything #free #free will #glory

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#free #free will #lung #will #you

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#free #free will #heaven #hell #many

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#between #confines #darkness #empires #everlasting

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#am #artist #choose #envision #free

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#certitude #entail #evidence #faith #free

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#chose #chosen #committee #follow #free

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#before #command #conflict #demonstrated #disturbing

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will. ↗

— Tarsem Singh

#anything #benevolent #came #definitely #enough