Quotes about Choice
Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation, or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) "send" anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in the state that it has chosen.
- Dorothy Sayers
The possibility of evil exists from the moment that a creature is made that can love and do good because it chooses and not because it is unable to do anything else. The actuality of evil exists from the moment that that choice is exercised in the wrong direction.
- Dorothy Sayers
It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can't do. It boils down to personal responsibility. People need to read labels, do their research and act accordingly.
- Tom Douglas
For me, picking a college was really difficult. I wish I had had my parents there kind of supervising me. But I chose well. I did OK.
- Diane Guerrero
We become like the five people we spend most of our time with; Oh, we've got to be picky, and you might have to fire a few people who don't belong in that inner circle because they can't help you be your best and further your purpose.
- Harris Faulkner
Choose what's important to you, Macy. Not for the moment, but for eternity.
- Rachel Hauck
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.
- Randy Alcorn
Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.
- Randy Alcorn
Rivka believed that HaShem was both all-good and all-powerful—so good that he created people, so powerful that he gave them free will. And that made evil possible. If men could not choose evil, then they were not free. Therefore, the existence of evil was proof of HaShem's great power to create those who could choose to oppose him.
- Randy Ingermanson
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.
- Ravi Zacharias