Quotes about Decision
If the means to a well-lived life is to take the road less traveled, first you have to get on the road.
- Pamela Redmond Satran
Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
- Dale Carnegie
So she decided on a different approach.
- Dale Carnegie
We fail to be disciples only because we do not decide to be. We do not intend to be disciples. It is the power of the decision and the intention over our life that is missing. We should apprentice ourselves to Jesus in a solemn moment, and we should let those around us know that we have done so.
- Dallas Willard
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
- Dallas Willard
If we are not prepared to use our power of choice to turn our minds to God, then we do not have contact with God.
- Dallas Willard
No, you don't have to certain about anything you're not certain about. In fact, certainty is not something you can choose, anyway. Certainty and uncertainty are not things that are under the will.
- Dallas Willard
You must make the decision to have Jesus with you. A decision is an inward resolve to do whatever is necessary to bring something to pass.
- Dallas Willard
Notice there are three things about the tree that caught Eve's attention. It was (1) good for food, (2) pleasant to the eyes, and (3) desirable to make one wise.
- Dallas Willard
But the final step in becoming a disciple is decision. We become a life student of Jesus by deciding.
- Dallas Willard
God both develops and, for our good, tests our character by leaving us to decide. He calls us to responsible citizenship in his kingdom by saying—in effect or in reality—as often as possible, "My will for you in this case is that you to decide on your own".
- Dallas Willard
Our desires are the roots of the self-life in all of us. And until we, in conjunction with the grace of God, have made an intentional decision not to allow our desires to be the center of our lives, we can never have the kind of faith that will lead us to the life of abundant sufficiency in God.
- Dallas Willard