Quotes about Choice
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
- Pope John Paul II
A lot of guys that were trailblazers, if we were to go back to the actual time, were just really scared and had no choice, but the water's rushing in, and you either swim or sink.
- Roddy Piper
It is exciting to be recruited by North Carolina, UCLA, Syracuse and other schools that have won many national championships. But as I prayed about it and talked with my family, I felt that BYU was the best place for me.
- Shawn Bradley
Which thread shall I choose, Lord? There are so many. They hang before my eyes like strands of silk in a doorway. Each promising that it will weave the finest tapestry of my life. But it is not my tapestry. It is not my life. So again I ask, which thread do I choose? Which strand will pass through the very eye of the needle?
- Reinhard Bonnke
If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple.
- Richard Baxter
If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).
- Richard Baxter
Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).
- Richard Baxter
Make careful choice of the books which you read. Let the Holy Scriptures ever have the pre-eminence; and next [to] them the solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the Scriptures.
- Richard Baxter
O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274).
- Richard Baxter
We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)?
- Richard Baxter
I finally had to be either Roman or catholic, and I continue to choose the catholic end of that spectrum.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
God does not come uninvited. God and grace cannot enter without an opening from our side, or we would be mere robots. God does not want robots, but lovers who freely choose to love in return for love. And toward that supreme end, God seems quite willing to wait, cajole, and entice.
- Fr. Richard Rohr