Quotes About Choice

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette?

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.