Charles de Lint Quotes

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

The difference between a hero and a villain is that they just make different choices.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

God and the devil are inherent in each of us. It's our choice to make: you can take the road to good, you can take the road to bad. Well, we have a choice.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

Our choosing the right consistently whenever the choice is placed before us creates the solid ground under our faith

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.