Book of Deuteronomy Quotes

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

Fate is for losers.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny

Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power.

Atomic energy bears that same duality ... expressed in the Book of Books thousands of years ago: "See, I have set before thee life and good, and death and evil ... therefore choose life" [see Deuteronomy 30:15, 19].

Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.