Quotes about Choice

People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.

Every Christian has a choice between being humble or being humbled.

Being positive doesn't necessarily come naturally. We have to make that decision daily.

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

I made him just and right, sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

And from these corporal nutriments perhaps   Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit   Improv'd by tract of time, and wingd ascend   Ethereal, as wee, or may at choice   Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell;

They themselves ordained their Fall. The first sort by their own suggestion fell Self-tempted, self-depraved.

But of the tree whose operation brings Knowledge of good and ill, which I have set The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith, Amid the garden by the tree of life, Remember what I warn thee. Shun to taste. And shun the bitter consequence. For know, The day thou eatest thereof, my sole command Transgressed, inevitably thou shalt die, From that day mortal; and this happy state Shalt lose, expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow.

As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours.

Freely we serve, because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall

God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. "God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away," said Meister Eckhart.