Quotes About Choice

Day after day I sat with the truth of Psalm 23, letting it burrow its way into my soul. From 1 Peter 5:8, I knew that a major tactic of the Devil was to prowl around my life. So maybe I couldn't stop the Devil from prowling around my table, but in Jesus' name I definitely did have the choice whether I allowed the Enemy to sit down.

The Enemy masterfully paints an inviting picture of freedom.

when a harmful thought or temptation comes into our minds, we have a choice. We can either discard that thought or entertain it. If we discard it, good. But if we enetertain it, that's when the Devil sits at our table.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

There's no real alternative to what there is.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.--Louis Auchincloss

When colonists came to grips with their destiny, it was because they had realized liberty and responsibility go together.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

Up to a point a person's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.

Everyone is simply riding the wave chance has put them on. Some people know how to surf; some people drown.

If behaving as though we had free will or God exists gets us results we want, we will not only come to believe those things; they will be, pragmatically, true.

Si pudiese volver a vivir mi vida, no elegiría por cierto el ser escritor y ver pasar mis días en una sociedad retrógrada en que la aventura yace debajo de la cama, como un perro. Necesitaría una aventura-león. Me haría físico teórico para vivir en el corazón ardiente del romanticismo verdadero.

You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

themselves, so when they do, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. We have to do the right thing.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not.

You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he's the right one.

There may come a time when you will wish you had never tasted the fruit from the tree of knowledge. There may even come a time when you will lie about who took the first bite.

Responsibility is our ability to respond to a situation. We always have a choice.

The way to control your life is to control your choice of words and thoughts. No one thinks in your mind but you.

In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack. I now choose to begin to see myself as the Universe sees me—perfect, whole, and complete. The truth of my Being is that I was created perfect, whole, and complete. I will always be perfect, whole, and complete. I now choose to live my life from this understanding. I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing. All is well in my world.

You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!

I now discover how wonderful I am. I choose to love and enjoy myself.