Quotes about Choice
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Of two evils we must always choose the least.
- Thomas a Kempis
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown, Then tarry not, I bid thee haste; There's many another Inn in town.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.
- Clay Aiken
If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
- Nikki Giovanni
If God is love and humans are free, then there must be a hell. Not only would it be a contradiction for God to force people to love him, but it would also be hell for them to be forced to love the One they hate.
- Norman Geisler
It is true that God desires all men to be saved (2 Peter 3-9), but that they have to choose to love him and believe in him. Now God can't force anyone to love him. Forced love is a contradiction in terms.
- Norman Geisler
Love must be free: it is a free choice. So in spite of God's desire, some men do not choose to love him. All who go to hell do so because of their free choice. They may not want to go to hell, but they do will it.
- Norman Geisler
Neither can we deny that free will (the power of free choice) is a good thing.
- Norman Geisler
The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!
- Norman Geisler
There are some things even God cannot do. He cannot force anyone to freely accept Him. Forced freedom is a contradiction in terms.
- Norman Geisler