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I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.

I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of it as much as we could when it comes to matters of the heart.