Quotes about Choice
God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
If you do not choose the kingdom of God, it does not matter what you choose instead.
— Gordon Hinckley
People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.
— Timothy Keller
We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.
— JC Ryle
Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
— Joyce Meyer
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
— CS Lewis
God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
— Ignatius of Loyola
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
— CS Lewis
Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
— Dallas Willard
The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
— John Haggai
You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.
— Charles Spurgeon
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
— William Law