Quotes about Dilemma

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

There are many bibles of different religions; there is the Mohammedan Koran, the Buddhist Canon of Sacred Scripture, the Zoroastrian Zend-Avesta, and the Brahman Veda . . . they all begin with some flashes of true light, and end in utter darkness. Even the most casual observer soon discovers that the Bible is radically different. It is the only Book that offers redemption to us and points the way out of our dilemma.

If we are at peace with this world, it may be because we have sold out to it and compromised with it.

People reading the Bible for the first time are often surprised to discover how much human drama it contains. Almost every conceivable human dilemma and conflict is reflected in its pages.

Sometimes we face "gray areas," things that aren't necessarily forbidden by the Bible but still may not belong in our lives.

I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

Do you believe? I believe, he said softly. What do you believe? I believe that I will kill these two to save my wife and son. Belief. Something about belief mattered greatly.

Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it? There may be sex or nudity or violence in the script, and then you have to say: Is it gratuitous just out to shock people? Or is it there because it has to be? If a role demands it, and it isn't gratuitous, I'll do it. It's my job, after all. I'm an actress.

When we see ourselves in a relationship of love with God, there is always something of a lover's dilemma, a struggle to give and receive, to trust and obey the call.