Quotes About Choice

Just for today we can be pleasantly productive. Just for today we can be faithful. Just for today we can resist temptation. Just for today we can choose to be joyful and to live for Jesus. Just for today we can be about the Father's business.

I call this second phenomenon the Better-Deal Theory, which states: Before a person closes a deal, it's human nature for him to worry that there may be a better deal down the road.

You can choose the ways in which you'll be tested

Free will is not always the most important thing

Ronald Reagan put it very simply: "Everybody who's for abortion has already been born.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

Time to toss the dice

Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.

The servant leader is servant first... It begins with a natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first...

Catherine approved this choice reluctantly. She recognized Peter Panin's military abilities, but she disliked him personally. He had often declared that Russia should be ruled by a man; his preference was Grand Duke Paul. Catherine also worried about his reputation as a military martinet and about his unconventional personal behavior: he sometimes appeared in his headquarters wearing a gray satin nightgown and a large French nightcap with pink ribbons.

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied.

You kill -- You die." That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is -- in most cases, NOW, the way things are -- you kill -- you LIVE.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will make little difference what you have chosen instead.

It is either a "once-for-all" salvation or a "not-at-all" salvation. There is no middle ground.

What good is the present if you cannot change the future?

The second round of toast popped up behind David. He said, "I don't know what destiny feels like, but if this is it, I don't like it. I want to un-destiny this place from my life.

If you are stupid enough to dine with the devil, for Christ's sake use a long spoon.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

After loving you so much, can I forget you for eternity, and have no other choice?

how fine our distinctions when we cannot choose

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.