Quotes about Choice

Necessity and chance approach not me, and what I will is fate.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.

We are inconsistent, said Mother Teresa, to care about violence, and to care about hungry children in places like India and Africa, and yet not care about the millions who are killed by the deliberate choice of their own mothers.

Man and woman, in a world without suffering, chose against God.

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.

circumstances, whether fortunate or unfortunate, are morally neutral. They simply are what they are; what matters is how we respond to them. Good and evil, in the moral sense, do not reside in things, but always in persons.

Alcoholics Anonymous discovered long ago that the path toward cure involves more than a quick-fix solution based on increased knowledge. In fact, it involves a change that seems more theological than educational. Somehow the "victim" of addictive behavior must regain an underlying sense of human dignity and choice, a profound reawakening that usually requires much time, attention, and love.

Not even God, with all his power, can force a human being to love.

Jesus' prayers for Peter — and perhaps for Judas as well — express God's unfathomable respect for human freedom.