Quotes About Choice

God seems ready and willing to wait for, and to empower, free will and a free "yes." Love only happens in the realm of freedom.

Our full "Christ Option"—and it is indeed a free choice to jump on board—offers us so much that is both good and new—a God who is in total solidarity with all of us at every stage of the journey, and who will

Our full "Christ Option"—and it is indeed a free choice to jump on board—offers us so much that is both good and new—a God who is in total solidarity with all of us at every stage of the journey, and who will get us all to our destination together in love.

As Mary Oliver puts it, "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

You surrender your need to control your partner, and finally the relationship blossoms. Yet each time it is a choice—and each time it is a kind of dying.

Lives are rivers. We imagine we can direct their paths, though in the end there's but one destination, and we end up being true to ourselves only because we have no choice.

You can do things his way, or you can wish you had.

There are no compelling reasons for matrimony," Jacob admits. "Getting married is something you do despite compelling reasons.

THE THING TO UNDERSTAND about your father," Lincoln's mother had once explained when he was in high school, "is that you always have a choice. You can do things his way, or you can wish you had.

What made the contest between fate and free will so lopsided was that human beings invariably mistook one for the other, hurling themselves furiously against that which is fixed and immutable while ignoring the very things over which

Wondrous! he thought, how the heart leaps when one is chosen, especially later in life, after one would suppose the time for choosing and being chosen has passed.

his conviction that he was not put here in this world to learn other people's lessons. He'll accept his punishment because he has no choice, but he'll pass when it comes to the education...If we were capable of learning our lessons we'd become obedient. Sensing this, we're dead set against moral instruction.

We stand before a hundred doors, choose to enter one, where we're faced with a hundred more and then choose again. We choose not just what we'll do, but who we'll be. Perhaps the sound of all those doors swinging shut behind us each time we select this one

The thing to do was to act just like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do what you wanted.

He murdered Mary Dalton accidentally, without thinking, without plan, without conscious motive. But, after he murdered, he accepted the crime. And that's the important thing. It was the first full act of his life; it was the most meaningful, exciting and stirring thing that had ever happened to him. He accepted it because it made him free, gave him the possibility of choice, of action, the opportunity to act and to feel that his actions carried weight.

High performers pick the shortest path to the right evidence to make decisions that matter.

If we don't know what we do and why we do it, everything else will look like a possible option.

So principle number one is 'seek first the kingdom' with every choice. The second is 'forgetting what lies behind, press on toward the mark of the high calling of God." These two will help us make the right choices

Some people like a bidet, but Mrs. Salk said she does not want to shoot water up herself from a spigot that others have also used.

Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!

But you'll be killed! I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice. Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.

Juno: All roads lead there child. You should know that. Percy: Detention?

You can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy.

Decapitation is not a healthy lifestyle choice.