Quotes about Choice

And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”

Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

“Now you, son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same land. And make a signpost where the road branches off to each city.

Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece—thigh and shoulder—fill it with choice bones.

So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.

No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

His disciples said to Him, “If this is the case between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.”

‘I will not,’ he replied. But later he changed his mind and went.