Quotes about Decision-making

But there is no perfect guide for discerning God's movement in the world, Contrary to what many conservatives say, the Bible is not a blueprint on this matter. It is a valuable symbol for point to God's revelation in Jesus, but it is not self-interpreting. We are thus place in an existential situation of freedom in which the burden is on us to make decisions without a guaranteed ethical guide.

As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

In high school, I was very good in math and physics. I wasn't good at much of anything else. Some people are good at a lot of things. I don't know how they choose what to do.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.