Quotes About Choice

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.

O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

Belief, Faith, and God do not ask you to follow them blindly. Choose it with all your heart!

Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.

It's gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love.

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

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

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.

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.

I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself, the other God chose for you.

5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it's presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much homage reflected on ourselves.

I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.

In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.