Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
Dallas WillardNow, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.
Dallas WillardThe ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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