Quotes About Choices

Each decision that we make comes with a hidden price. We're never told what it is we may be asked to sacrifice.

Decisions, by all accounts, including those of the participants, were made with little knowledge of, or concern for, the lands and peoples about which and whom the decisions were being made.

Somewhere there exists all the possible variations of all the possible people I could be. I could be any of them- but I cannot be all. I can only be one of the variations. I will be the variation of myself that pleases me the most.

I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.

We are the sum of our choices and decisions, chances and accidents. Our personal history is built up in layers that contain our history as surely as sediments of rock contain the history of our planet.

Why would the genealogy highlight only four women and then make such unusual choices? Why not choose Hannah or Sarah or Rachel or Rebecca?

Education is important, but we're to the point where almost everyone knows they shouldn't drink and drive. The people who are still doing it are choosing to do it. The most effective way to deal with them is to arrest them.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.

God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.

There are always consequences to wrong choices.

Bad decisions, good intentions.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.