Quotes about Choice
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
- CS Lewis
Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
- Dallas Willard
The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
- John Haggai
You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.
- Charles Spurgeon
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
- William Law
Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?
- Max Lucado
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
- Erwin McManus
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.
- Joseph Campbell
Choose to view life through God's eyes.
- Charles Swindoll
God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
- Ellen White
It's either Christ or the other god.
- Billy Graham
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
- George Eliot