John Henry Newman Quotes

I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

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.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

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

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

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 blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

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.

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

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

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

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.

The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

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.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.