Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

A human being is a deciding being.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

The more, therefore, we consider man to be free, the less we can say, that he can neglect to use reason

The fact that the underlying laws of physics are deterministic and impersonal does not mean that at the human level we can't talk about ideas about reasons and goals and purposes and free will.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

It's choice that makes us human.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

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

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

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

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

Everything you do is by choice. It may not seem so, but it is.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.