Quotes about Choice
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
— William Hazlitt
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
— William James
The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.
— William James
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
— William James
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
— William James
Saw I was evidently throwing myself into all hardships and distressed in my present undertaking. I thought it would be less difficult to lie down in the grave; but yet I chose to go rather than stay.
— David Brainerd
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
— RC Sproul
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
— John Maxwell
So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.
— Greg Laurie
Man's will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man's inclinations are always and invariably away from God.
— RC Sproul
At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
— RC Sproul
Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you
— Myles Munroe