Quotes about Choice

But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know.

But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.

He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.

But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

He told me I could go on being a lost sinner, living my life as I chose, ignoring the offer of eternal life and the peace that only God could give me. But, he told me, You will literally have to step over the broken, bleeding, nail-pierced body of Jesus in order to enter the gates of hell.

Show me the way, Lord. Show me what I am to do, because I fear I have two paths before me and neither one suggests itself over the other.

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able to choose between one road and another. May our YES always be a YES and our NO always be a NO. Once we have chosen our road, may we never look back nor allow our soul to be eaten away by remorse. And in order for this to be possible.