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We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

— Archibald MacLeish

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

— Geoffrey Fisher

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

— Voltaire

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

— Alfred A. Montapert

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

— Maya Angelou

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

— Alan Cohen

✗Opposing Perspectives

In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.

— Victoria Osteen

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely choose - to keep His commandments and come unto His Beloved Son. They do not compel us. They cannot, for that would interfere with the plan of happiness. And so there is in us a God-given desire to be responsible for our own choices.

— Henry B. Eyring