Quotes about Choice

And belief is a choice. It is simply a thought you choose to think over and over until it becomes automatic.

Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us." That was all. And that was everything.

He who has seen the light does not choose to walk in darkness.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

Could I be your hero, or your villain? I guess it just depends in whose eyes

God also puts His people in the middle of things for the same reason that He put the tree of temptation in the middle of the garden--so that our choice to follow Him would be a conscious, daily one. Every time we publicly choose to live for Christ, He is glorified.

she could begin again and not become so entangled in this long, horrible war, would she watch from the sidelines as a spectator this time? Would she choose differently, take fewer risks? Caroline

When you forgive someone, you make a choice to cancel the debt he owes you.

Love isn't always a feeling. Sometimes it's a decision.

Death was not God's choice; it was man's. Death is unnatural, a punishment for sin. But God countered man's choice with another perfect plan—He redeemed us in Christ so we could live forever with Him.

That's what I like best about it. Your story gives me a lot to think about. Who we fall in love with and choose to spend our life with is such a huge part of everyone's story, isn't it? Our choice affects the rest of our lives.' 'And our children's lives, too.' "Yes. And sometimes our faith gets entangled in our love stories

People are not puppets that Hashem controls, making us do whatever He wants. Nor can He be manipulated to do whatever we ask of Him. Human beings chose to start this war, and that means we are responsible for putting the people we love in danger, not Him. But Hashem can bring good from this, even if we cannot see it.