Quotes About Choice

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

What you intend and what you do not intend have smaller import than you might suspect. The question is not what you shall do with life but what life shall do with you.

He suggests that contraceptive substances be added to basic foods.... Should a couple wish to have a child, they'd go to special stores to procure their food. Every child a wanted child.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

And ye peoples, to whom God gave the liberty to choose your own magistrates, see to it, that ye do not forfeit this favor, by electing to the positions of highest honor, rascals and enemies of God.

not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

In discussing the subject of free will, the question is not, whether external obstacles will permit a man to execute what he has internally resolved, but whether, in any matter whatever, he has a free power of judging and of willing.

whenever God is pleased to make way for his providence, he even in external matters so turns and bends the wills of men, that whatever the freedom of their choice may be, it is still subject to the disposal of God.

Adam did not take away the will, but made it a slave where it was free. It is not only prone to sin, but is made subject to sin.

Let us remember, therefore, that will in man is one thing, and the free choice of good and evil another: for freedom of choice having been taken away after the fall of the first man, will alone was left; but so completely captive under the tyranny of sin, that it is only inclined to evil.

Hence the unskilful   rashly infer, that man did not sin by free choice.

Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly

in the freest manner, and on no mercenary   grounds, does God bestow upon us his love and favor, just as, when we   were not yet born, and when he was prompted by nothing but his own   will, he fixed upon us his choice. [111]

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

I was here on earth because I chose to be.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

but we no more choose our passions than our features or complexion.

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away. But the soul can burn and not be damned.

Samuel didn't move. 'What will you do if I climb off the bed?' 'Well I can eat you, or I can drag you down to the depths of Hell, never to seen or heard from again. Depends, really.' 'On what?' 'Lost of things: hygiene, for a start. After tasting that sock, I don't fancy eating any part of you, to be honest, so it'll have to be the depths of Hell for you, I'm afraid.

You did it because you wanted to. No one can make you do evil. You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.