613 Quotes About Free-will

Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along and knock down all the obstacles we put in your way. People who realize free will is a gift, you'll never know how to use until you fight for it.

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

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

I love men too — not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. I know no “commandment of love.” I have a fellow-feeling with every feeling being, and their torment torments, their refreshment refreshes me too; I can kill them, not torture them.

I've been coerced into free will.

Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand.  And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences.

It would be a little late in deciding now that we would not live our lives by the whimsical wisdoms of futuretellers, don't you think? [Chapter 33, page 386]

Trusting yourself is the opposite of trusting God. If you trust God totally (as you must) you must mistrust yourself. If you trust yourself, you are automatically mistrusting God.Faith is not enough, you also need an act of will. The act of will you need is precisely deciding to trust God fully and mistrust yourself.Modern psychology has lost its bearings when they insist that one must trust oneself. That position is un-Christian.

Real control is influencing someone to the point that he believes his choices are his own.