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What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.
- Peter Kreeft
There is no such thing as an involuntary sin.
- Peter Kreeft
the will can obey the passions instead of the reason, and this accounts for the fact that we often know what is good and what is evil—even what is good for us, what is truly best for us, for our own ultimate happiness—and yet choose evil over good, choose what we know is not in our own best interests. We can choose misery over joy if our will, led by our passions, commands our mind to focus on the short-range pleasures and ignore the long-run miseries.
- Peter Kreeft
City of God interprets all of the human story, from Creation to the Last Judgment, as the drama of divine providence and human free choice, especially the choice between the two most fundamental options of membership in one or the other of the two cities. The City of God is the invisible community of all who love God; the City of the World is all those who love the world and themselves as their God.
- Peter Kreeft
Even God cannot make us love him. "Forced love" is a meaningless impossibility, like "virtuous sin".
- Peter Kreeft
Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having a philosophy and not having one, only between having a good one and having a bad one. And not to admit that you have a philosophy at all is to have a bad one. For it is one that does not know itself. So how could it know anything else, especially us?
- Peter Kreeft
Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature's freely choosing sin and selfishness.
- Peter Kreeft
I will not serve"—
- Peter Kreeft
we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.
- Peter Kreeft
I chose God over the material universe.
- Philip K. Dick
Even today, we must choose. Will we be marked as God's own in our hearts and in our actions? Or will we be marked as Satan's own? Will we stand for Christ, His Son, no matter the personal cost?
- David Jeremiah
You can choose how you want to live. You are free to choose the actions, but not the results. You are free to have your kicks, but not to avoid the kickbacks. You are free to make choices, but not to avoid the consequences.
- David Jeremiah