Quotes About Choices

Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.

Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.

Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?

A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

It is good to grasp the one and not let the other slip from your hand. For he who fears God will follow both warnings.

Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

A wise manís heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.

Even as the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking, and he shows everyone that he is a fool.

Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.

“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dogís neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pigís blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

But they will reply, ëIt is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.í”

One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,

though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighborís wife.