Quotes about Volition
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.
— Origen
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
— CS Lewis
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose.
— John Maxwell
I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.
— Clay Aiken
We all exercise agency in the choices we make.
— Gordon Hinckley
Man must choose his world.
— AW Tozer
Neither can we deny that free will (the power of free choice) is a good thing.
— Norman Geisler
For while we may debate our freedom to choose, there is no doubt that we are not free not to choose.
— Os Guinness
But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.
— Philemon 1:14
Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.
— Mark Batterson