Quotes about Decision
The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
- John Perkins
life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
- John Perkins
The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.
- John Piper
Go, send, or disobey.
- John Piper
James warns against the pride of presumption in speaking of the simplest plans in life without a due submission to the overarching sovereignty of God over the day's agenda. Man's plans might be interrupted by God's decision to take the life he gave.
- John Piper
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
- John Updike
Even the best of men, if left to themselves, will err in judgment.
- Ellen White
Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Joshua 24:15.
- Ellen White
Every soul has a heaven to win, and a hell to shun.
- Ellen White
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
- Emily Bronte
Three months is a lifetime in politics.
- Barack Obama
When my friend Matilda lay dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, she said that she had been prepared all of her life to choose between good and evil. What no one had prepared her for, she lamented, was to choose between the good, the better, and the best—and yet this capacity turned out to be the one she most needed as she watched the sands of her life run out.
- Barbara Brown Taylor