Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, bu his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto. (Westminster Confession)

‘The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith; and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.’ (‘Of free will’ – The Thirty Nine Articles, X).

‘The will is not free…the affections love as they do and the will chooses as it does because of the state of the heart, and…the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.’ (A.W. Pink)

‘The will is not sovereign; it is a servant, because influenced and controlled by the other faculties of man’s being. The will is not free because the man is the slave of sin.’ (A.W. Pink)

If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright. (Martin Luther)

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ.  My hope lies in another quarter.  I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, “You are mine, and you shall be mine.  I claim you for myself.”  My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.  (C.H. Spurgeon)

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in this present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted free will.  (Augustus Toplady)

I have a great liking for many of Wesley’s Hymns; but when I read some of them, I ask, “What’s become of your Free-will now, friend?” ‘Rabbi’ Duncan

A man’s choices are free in the sense that they are not just determined by external compulsion. But they are not free if by freedom is meant freedom from determination by the man’s own character. (J.G. Machen)

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure. (Whitefield)

Free will has carried many souls to hell, but yet never a soul to heaven. (C.H. Spurgeon)

We declare on scriptural authority that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will will ever be constrained toward Christ. (C.H. Spurgeon)

And here are a couple of quotes that are more quaint than profound:-

Man was predestined to have free will. (Hal Lee Luyah)

We have to believe in free will.  We’ve got no choice. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)

And here are some that exalt free will to a higher place than is warranted.

‘If a man does not have the free faculty to shun evil and to choose good, than, whatever his action smay be, he is not responsible for them’ (Justin Martyr)

‘To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.’ (Froude)

‘The powerof choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.’ (Origen)

‘It is in accordance with their dignity as persons – that is, beings endowed with reason and free will and therefore privileged to bear personal responsibility – that all men should be at once impelled by nature and also bound by a moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth.’ (Second Vatican Council)