Mitch Albom Quotes

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law.

This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

Evil comes from the abuse of free will.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law.

Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may

But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.