{"quotes":[{"text":"Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only master of all is the Creator, and he created all men to be free. Freedom is a God-given right, not a human-granted gift. No man should have to fight to breathe in good health and peace.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["breathe","collective-power","creator","fight","fighting","free","freedom","freewill","ggod","gift","god","health","human","human-rights","humane","humanity","justice","man","master","oppression","peace","politics","poverty","right","rights","slave","slavery","struggle","suffering","truth","will","willpower","world-peace"],"id":18198,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["ambitions","conventions","filial-love","free-will","freedom","freewill","relations","slavery","traditions"],"id":27408,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.","author":"Jennifer Donnelly","tags":["choice","freewill","life"],"id":69767,"author_id":"Jennifer+Donnelly"},{"text":"We do not have to believe something is right- to believe a person has a right to choose it. God doesn't force us to serve him. It is a freewill choice we make, so why in the name of all that is holy and right do we think we can force other people to live by our particular brand of religion? We are commanded to Love if we are Christ servers.","author":"Linda Wells~Harr","tags":["choice","christian-leadership","christianity","freewill","love","philosophy-of-life","philosophy-of-religion","to-live-by","religion","right","serve"],"id":82870,"author_id":"Linda+Wells~Harr"},{"text":"Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill.","author":"Debalina Haldar","tags":["embarrassing","eradicate","freewill","harmless","independent","ragging","silly","thinking"],"id":99995,"author_id":"Debalina+Haldar"},{"text":"Almost two hundred sixty-six years ago on my home world, Earth, my forefathers did the same thing. They declared their independence and free agency from an enemy that oppressed them. No one at that time expected this rebellion force to win the war. They were severely outnumbered, and they were extremely inexperienced compared to their enemy. Despite those odds, they succeeded in winning the war, giving them their independence and freewill to choose. (Adrian Palmer, Worlds Without End: The Mission).","author":"Shaun Messick","tags":["agency","freewill","independence","quote","shaun-f-messick","worlds-without-end-the-mission"],"id":102091,"author_id":"Shaun+Messick"},{"text":"Have you ever stopped to consider the number of choices you make daily Paradoxically speaking, every time you have a choice to make and you don't make it, by default, you are making a choice not to make a choice, which is, of course, a choice. You have no choice in the matter. This is an important question because the more conscious you are about your choices, the more likely it is you will end up where you want to be at the end of your stay on this planet.","author":"Dennis Merritt Jones","tags":["choices-and-consequences","consciousness","fear","freewill","indecision"],"id":125412,"author_id":"Dennis+Merritt+Jones"},{"text":"God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or in fear is something called freewill. Every man was born with freewill. Some people use it, and some people use any excuse not to. Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. And in the end, when God asks you: 'Who told you to kill one of my children?'And you tell him, 'My leader.'He will then ask you, 'And are THEY your GOD?","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bad","birth","birthright","borders","born","children","conscience","creation","enslave","enslaved","evil","fear","free","freedom","freewill","god","good","happy","immigration","innocent","judgement","justice","kill","killing-humans","man","meeting-with-god","mercy","military","refugees","sad","slave","speaking-to-god","war","wrong"],"id":162237,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Vigilance enables wisdom and is the key to freewill.","author":"Michael J. Cooper","tags":["christian","freedom","freewill","inspirational","revolution","soul-searching"],"id":177261,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Cooper"},{"text":"That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.","author":"Rebecca Serle","tags":["against","choice","decisions","for","freewill"],"id":230396,"author_id":"Rebecca+Serle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}