Quotes about Selection

The LORD said to Gideon, "I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped… . But everyone else is to go home." Judges 7:7

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley's mother counseled him: 'Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.

A lot of your life is shaped by the opportunities you turn down as much as those you take up.

There are no have-to's, just choices

There are no have-to's, just choices

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not.

Admonished for his lack of familiarity with twentieth century science, Sundar Singh said, 'What is science?' 'Natural selection and survival of the fittest,' he was told. 'Ah,' Sundar Singh replied, 'but I am more interested in divine selection and the survival of the unfit.

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.

there is no way that the Will can determine an act of the Will, than by willing that act of the Will, or, which is the same thing, choosing it.

Present choice cannot at present choose to be otherwise: for that would be at present to choose something diverse from what is at present chosen.

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

The third truth to keep before us is that the Bible consistently portrays people as making real choices of their own will.