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Paul Tillich

“Freedom is not the freedom of indeterminacy. That would make every moral decision an accident, unrelated to the person who acts. But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision. None of these drives compels the decision in isolation. (Only in states of disintegration is the personality determined by compulsions.) But they are effective in union and through the deciding center. In this way the universe participates in every act of human freedom. It represents the side of destiny in the act of freedom.”

Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, Vol 2
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