Quotes about Choice
Actually, there was nothing sudden about his undoing. His fall was inevitable. The end of this story was determined years ago when he chose a path that, from the very beginning, had dishonor, disgrace, and dismissal as the destination. Direction determines destination. Every time.
— Andy Stanley
Everybody ends up somewhere in life. A few people end up somewhere on purpose.
— Andy Stanley
Direction, not intention determines your destination.
— Andy Stanley
I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.
— Andy Stanley
We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.
— Angela Thomas
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
— William James
Our choosing the right consistently whenever the choice is placed before us creates the solid ground under our faith. It can begin in childhood, since every soul is born with the free gift of the Spirit of Christ. With that Spirit we can know when we have done what is right before God and when we have done wrong in His sight.
— Henry B. Eyring
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
— Earl Nightingale
God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.
— Charles Stanley
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
— Os Guinness
The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.
— Henry B. Eyring
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
— Tertullian