Quotes about Choices
The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.
- Craig Groeschel
The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back. The Bible tells of flawed people -- people just like me -- who make shockingly bad choices and yet still find themselves pursued by God. As they receive grace and forgiveness, naturally they want to give it to others, and a thread of hope and transformation weaves its way throughout the Bible's accounts.
- Philip Yancey
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day
- Philip Yancey
I cannot stop anyone from making wrong choices. I can only help them make the right ones." There was deep sadness in Ruwach's tone, rooted in love, as if he would have done anything to prevent Brianna from suffering the consequences of her choice.
- Priscilla Shirer
If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.
- J. Oswald Sanders
So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- JRR Tolkien
Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.
- JRR Tolkien
a person could walk around in a prison of his or her own making and never be behind bars.
- Lori Wick
Remember that God has given you today and that the choices you make today will shape your tomorrow—not your yesterday.
- John Bevere
Finally, there are numerous choices and ways that seem good, but their final outcome is sorrow, misery, loss, and death (see Proverbs 14:12). Think of it: our enemy, his servants, and his ways—all of which ultimately seek our demise—are all disguised as good. Scripture doesn't say they can be disguised, but rather that they are disguised. So do not miss this: usually, what is most dangerous to you will not appear as blatant evil. Rather, it will mask itself as good. In
- John Bevere
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.
- John Maxwell
Hell begins on that day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts we wasted, of all that we might have done that we did not do.
- John Maxwell