Quotes
Quotes about Choice
Why did God allow evil to exist? A question not to be asked. Without evil there could be no freedom of choice
God gave his creatures the most tremendous endowment, the thing most like his own essence - I mean freedom of choice. If he knows in advance what his creatures are going to do, then he's denying them freedom. So he deliberately blacks out foreknowledge. God could know, if he wished, but out of respect and love for his creatures, he refuses to know. Can you imagine a more awesome gift than this - God denying himself out of sheer love?
To live or to die - that's the choice, I guess
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thine superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.
You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
The difficulty in life is the choice.
