Eben Alexander Quotes

The more...we consider man to be free, the less we can say, that he can neglect to use reason, or choose evil in preference to good

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

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

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.

He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Clearly, one primary purpose of our existence upon the earth is to obtain a body of flesh and bones. We have also been given the gift of agency. In a thousand ways we are privileged to choose for ourselves. Here we learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that there are consequences attached to our actions.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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