Quotes about Choice
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
— Karl Barth
A man is the origin of his action.
— Aristotle
Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
— Ray Comfort
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
— Samuel Johnson
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
— Will Rogers
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
— Epictetus
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.
— Brigham Young
Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.
— Charles Spurgeon
Man cannot choose his duties.
— George Eliot
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
— Henry David Thoreau