Quotes about Choice

Why should anyone be shattered by the thought of hell? It is not compulsory for anyone to go there. Those who do, do so by their own choice, and against the will of God, and they can only get into hell by defying and resisting all the work of Providence and grace. It is their own will that takes them there, not God's.

we too easily assume that we are our real selves, and that our choices are really the ones we want to make when, in fact, our acts of free choice are (though morally imputable, no doubt) largely dictated by psychological compulsions, flowing from our inordinate ideas of our own importance.

One so often hears people say, "I just can't handle it," when they reject a biblical image of God as Father, as Mother, as Lord or Judge; God as lover, as angry or jealous, God on a cross. I find this choice of words revealing, however real the pain they reflect: if we seek a God we can "handle," that will be exactly what we get. A God we can manipulate, suspiciously like ourselves, the wideness of whose mercy we've cut down to size.

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife?

The sure path can only lead to death.

You either stand for Jesus or you stand for all that He died to repudiate.

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.