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 heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
Sam HarrisTag: free-will christianity god religion
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
Terry BrooksTag: free-will prophecy choices-and-consequences
I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?
Criss JamiTag: free-will belief god dream hypocrisy denial uncertainty mother skepticism crime confusion rhetorical apologetics atrocities imprisonment agenda blame bias son scrutiny self-interest biases
You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
Lisa SeeTag: choice free-will fate choices-and-consequences
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
C.S. LewisYou may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
EpictetusTag: free-will
Remember that the choices you make, and the reasons you make them, shape your destiny. Remember your free will...And remember, what the True One has made is supposed to bring balance and unity, not anger, fear or revenge. Do not fear, what is yours to use. Only beware the ends to which it is turned, and know the means will truly determine the outcome.
Derek DonaisTag: fear power free-will right-and-wrong anger sci-fi choices
...the magic was a tool, though a natural, mysterious tool. In its awareness of the magic, his human nature had desired to connect with it, to use it. The whisperings were the voice of his own awakening, not the seductive call of a dark power. Using it was not corruption, but a natural extension of his being. And he could control the manner in which he used it. He would.
Derek DonaisTag: power choice free-will magic right-and-wrong sci-fi awakening dark-power
In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.
Daniel C. DennettTag: determinism free-will indeterminism
الإرادة سِرٌ من قوة الفعل والعمل فكيف لو ينمى لها أجنحة .
Sam HoussamiTag: free-will
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