Quotes About Decision

As a rule, Americans are big on that word "choice" and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.

I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey.

Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins.

Andreas - K?rm?z? ???kta geçmeye benzemiyor ha Woyzeck.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

will is a bargaining situation, not an organ.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

My father gave me the best advice of my life. He said, "Whatever you do, don't wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."

His heart runs away with his head.

You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.

An apple is an excellent thing — until you have tried a peach.

But he died of distemper when he was eleven months old. I do not know if little dogs cause as large griefs when they die as big ones; but I settled there should be no more dogs—big or little—for me.

Justification is an eschatological fact that has occurred in history. It means acquittal from the guilt of sin by a favorable decision of the Judge. This decision has already been rendered for believers on the ground of the death of Christ (Rom. 3:21-26). Because of present justification, we shall be saved from wrath on the day of judgment (Rom. 5:9).

Against the background of the meaning of "lost," one can approve of the decision of Arndt, Gingrich, and Danker, following Bauer, to list "lost" in Luke 19:10 under the meaning "perish, die."16 The lost have not only gone astray but are in danger of perishing unless rescued.

John makes no effort to reconcile systematically these sayings about divine predestination and moral responsibility. He sees no contradiction that faith is the free decision of a person's will and at the same time the gift of God's grace. This makes it clear that "the decision of faith is not a human meritorious achievement like the Jewish works of the Law, but simply the fitting answer, made possible by the grace of God, to the revelation given by Jesus."20