Quotes about Choice
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.
- Desmond Tutu
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, "let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?
- Elisabeth Elliot
Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.
- Ezra Taft Benson
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
- Francis Collins
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.
- Gordon Hinckley
Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor God in friendship, they used it to rebel.
- Greg Koukl
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.
- Henry B. Eyring
The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
- JI Packer
I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.
- Joel Osteen
People are born to be free; it's a gift from God.
- Joyce Meyer
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead