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Willing to Believe: The Controversy Over Free Will QUOTES

Willing to Believe: The Controversy Over Free Will QUOTES

1 " In The City of God Augustine says: “The will, therefore, is then truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Such was it given us by God; and this being lost by its own fault, can only be restored by Him who was able at first to give it. "

― R.C. Sproul , Willing to Believe: The Controversy Over Free Will

2 " Free-will without God’s grace is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil, since it cannot turn itself to good. Martin Luther "

― R.C. Sproul , Willing to Believe: The Controversy Over Free Will

3 " When the will is enchained as the slave of sin, it cannot make a movement towards goodness, far less steadily pursue it. John Calvin "

― R.C. Sproul , Willing to Believe: The Controversy Over Free Will

4 " Jewish people mixed the impurities of paganism with the faith delivered to them by God. "

― R.C. Sproul , Willing to Believe: The Controversy Over Free Will

5 " What often happens when we relate to others is that we become the influencees rather than the influencers. In an effort to win people to Christ and be “winsome,” we may easily slip into the trap of emptying the gospel of its content, accommodating our hearers, and removing the offense inherent in the gospel. To be sure, our own insensitive behavior can add an offense to the gospel that is not properly part of it. "

― R.C. Sproul , Willing to Believe: The Controversy Over Free Will