Quotes about Choice

Every soul has a heaven to win, and a hell to shun.

How do souls become Christ's sheep? By choosing to receive Him. But Christ had first chosen them.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

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.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

The meaning we give to what happens in our lives is our final, inviolable freedom.

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

We find the fullness of life not only in options but in commitments.

But freedom is not an American value; it is a universal value. Freedom cannot be imposed; it must be chosen. And when people are given the choice, they choose freedom.