Billy Graham Quotes

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

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.

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?

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

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

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

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.

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.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

Moral liberty is the power of following, in all circumstances, our sense of right and wrong, or of acting in conformity to our reflecting and moral principles, without being controlled by any contrary principles.

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

Because one thing God gave us- and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.