Quotes about Preference

Don't you want to be free of all that? [33] 'But how can I do it?' You've often heard how — you need to suspend desire completely, and train aversion only on things within your power. You should dissociate yourself from everything outside yourself — the body, possessions, reputation, books, applause, as well as office or lack of office. Because a preference for any of them immediately makes you a slave, a subordinate, and prone to disappointment.

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

To allow God to be God we must follow him for who he is and what he intends, and not for what we want or what we prefer.

Churches closing at a rate of six thousand per year in North America are not doing so because of worship style or form of government or methodology. They are failing because regardless of your preference on those points, it's pointless to deny the true cause behind debates and divisions—a failure to love.

Few are guided by principle any longer, only by what they prefer. "You have to decide what's right for you," we are told. In such a climate, the only remaining virtue is tolerance, and the only philosophies that are wrong are those that believe in truth.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.