Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

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

Only man makes Karma.

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

I do not believe God is responsible for my sins, some people may. But I believe that my own weaknesses are father-filtered and just as much as God touched Jacob's hip and he walked with a limb the rest of his life, that I have certain emotional weaknesses that are there to keep me dependent on God.

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done…Who has ever maintained that by judging a wrong I presuppose that I myself would be incapable of committing it?

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.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

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

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.