Quotes about Choice

We do have an invitation to be a part of it, but if we refuse we only hurt ourselves.

Notice there are three things about the tree that caught Eve's attention. It was (1) good for food, (2) pleasant to the eyes, and (3) desirable to make one wise.

Anyone who can find a better way than Jesus, he would be the first to tell you to take it.

But the final step in becoming a disciple is decision. We become a life student of Jesus by deciding.

Can anyone now seriously believe that if people are only permitted or enabled to do what they want, they will then be happy or more disposed to do what is right?

You cannot choose conditions and reject the consequences. Even a "bill of rights" cannot change that.

Dallas: Jesus was a man of truth. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth, not of correct doctrine. I am just saying that we need to tell our young people, "Follow Jesus, and if you can find a better way than him, he would be the first to tell you to take it.

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.