Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

I've always felt like we're all human beings and we're all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How we treat other people. How we treat ourselves. Just the whole philosophy of that and the philosophical logic of that is that we're all capable of great acts of evil, and we're all capable of great acts of good.

We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.

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

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility

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

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

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

The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

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

No one does wrong voluntarily.

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

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

My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.

We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.