Quotes about Choice

The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course— its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.

This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.

Though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.

I'd rather be killed by you than kept alive by any other man

Money is simply a tool to give you choices.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.