Quotes about Choice

By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.

On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”

I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”

Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

“Now you, son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same land. And make a signpost where the road branches off to each city.

Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece—thigh and shoulder—fill it with choice bones.