Dallas Willard Quotes

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

Everything you are comes from your choices.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

To live is to choose.

We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

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

You shape your own destiny.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

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

The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.

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

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.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

We are what we make.

Man is condemned to be free.