Quotes About Choice

So Gad went and said to David, “This is what the LORD says: ëYou must choose

When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the kingís palace.

Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the kingís trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.

And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?

For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

Yet they say to God: ëLeave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.

Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed His? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.

Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.

He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah

Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.

“When I choose a time, I will judge fairly.

He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.