Quotes about Choice

But the final step in becoming a disciple is decision. We become a life student of Jesus by deciding.

Can anyone now seriously believe that if people are only permitted or enabled to do what they want, they will then be happy or more disposed to do what is right?

You cannot choose conditions and reject the consequences. Even a "bill of rights" cannot change that.

Dallas: Jesus was a man of truth. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth, not of correct doctrine. I am just saying that we need to tell our young people, "Follow Jesus, and if you can find a better way than him, he would be the first to tell you to take it.

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

Wrong was easy; gravity helped it. Right is difficult and long. In choosing what is difficult we are free, the mind too making its little flight out from the shadow into the clear in time between work and sleep.

Sometimes hidden from me in daily custom and in trust, so that I live by you unaware as by the beating of my heart, Suddenly you flare in my sight, a wild rose blooming at the edge of thicket, grace and light where yesterday was only shade, and once again I am blessed, choosing again what I chose before