Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.