Quotes about Choice
Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
— Mae West
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
I made him just and right, sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
— John Milton
And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit Improv'd by tract of time, and wingd ascend Ethereal, as wee, or may at choice Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell;
— John Milton
They themselves ordained their Fall. The first sort by their own suggestion fell Self-tempted, self-depraved.
— John Milton
But of the tree whose operation brings Knowledge of good and ill, which I have set The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith, Amid the garden by the tree of life, Remember what I warn thee. Shun to taste. And shun the bitter consequence. For know, The day thou eatest thereof, my sole command Transgressed, inevitably thou shalt die, From that day mortal; and this happy state Shalt lose, expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow.
— John Milton
As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours.
— John Milton
Freely we serve, because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall
— John Milton
God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. "God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away," said Meister Eckhart.
— John Ortberg
But a philosopher named William James responded that sometimes Clifford's advice is bad strategy. He said doubt is the wrong alternative when three conditions are met: when we have live options, when the stakes are momentous, and when we must make a choice.3
— John Ortberg
So temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
— John Owen
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
— John Owen