Human Choice Quotes

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Laws provide against injury from others. God himself will not save men against their wills.

The doctrine of free will is always in danger of robbing God of his honor

If we grant freedom to man, there is an end to the omniscience of God.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation. There can only be one predestination to salvation. In and through Jesus Christ all people are predestined to be saved. Our free choice is ruled out in this regard. God wants free people, except in relation to this last and definitive decision. We are not free to decide and choose to be damned.

Man now has the power to put an end to his own history.

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

Economics is not about goods and services; it is about human choice and action.

People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.

We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

Free will is to mind, what chance is to matter

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.

Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that the construction of an airplane, for instance, is simple when compared [with] a bird; that airplanes depend on an advanced civilization, and that were civilization is most advanced, few birds exist. I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.