Quotes about Choice

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

It's up to you to choose whether you're going to use your body, which includes your brain, for sin or for the sake of righteousness.

We shouldn't avoid sin because we fear eternal damnation. We should do so because we no longer want to live in bondage….

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

You have to choose your future regrets.

The only way love can be shown in this world is by sacrifice —namely, the surrender of one thing for another. Love is essentially bound up with choice, and choice is a negation, and negation is a sacrifice. When a young man sets his heart upon a young woman and asks her to marry him, he is not only saying "I choose you"; he is also saying "I do not choose, I reject, all others. I give them all up for you." Apply this to the problem of lust.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!

Was there a voice that whispered in his ear that he had just passed the most solemn moment of his destiny, that there was no longer a middle course for him; that from now on, he would either be the best of men or he would be the worst of men; that he now had to rise higher, so to speak, than the bishop or fall even lower than the galley slave; that if he wanted to be good, he had to be an angel; that if he wanted to stay bad, he had to be a monster from hell?