Quotes about Choice
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
- Francis de Sales
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us.
- DA Carson
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
- Martin Luther
Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
- Viktor E. Frankl
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
- Philip Yancey
Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
- Pope Benedict XVI
No one who lives in error is free.
- Euripides
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
- Stephen Covey
Without freedom there can be no morality.
- Carl Jung
Freedom always comes with a price.
- CS Lewis
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
- William Barclay
If the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.
- AW Pink