Quotes About Decision

Since I was at a loss as to how to investigate these matters, I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.

But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”

But I found he had done nothing worthy of death, and since he has now appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign one about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this inquiry I may have something to write.

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”

Then the king and the governor rose, along with Bernice and those seated with them.

And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them,

But contrary to Paulís advice, the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and by the owner of the ship.

Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to sail on, if somehow they could reach Phoenix to winter there. Phoenix was a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.

When a gentle south wind began to blow, they thought they had their opportunity. So they weighed anchor and sailed along, hugging the coast of Crete.

So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.

When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they sighted a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.

Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.

And if it is advisable for me to go also, they can travel with me.

Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to go to you with the brothers. He was not at all inclined to go now, but he will go when he has the opportunity.

So I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.

Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.