Quotes about Choice

We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Our choosing the right consistently whenever the choice is placed before us creates the solid ground under our faith. It can begin in childhood, since every soul is born with the free gift of the Spirit of Christ. With that Spirit we can know when we have done what is right before God and when we have done wrong in His sight.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

I wanted to go pro, but having the option to go to college was important for me.

I am pro-life, but because life is complicated, that choice is between a woman and her idea of a higher power.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.