Quotes about Choice

C. S. Lewis said, "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God says, 'All right then, have it your way.' " Tragically, many people will have to endure eternity without God because they chose to live without him here on earth.

Galatians 5:18 asks, "Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?" (MSG).

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

To do something is in every man's power.