29. Choice

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15

God has no need of marionettes. He pays men the compliment of allowing them to live without him if they chose. But if they live without him in this life, they must also live without him in the next. > Leon Morris

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. > Tryon Edwards

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost or a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me. > Jim Elliot

To be a Christian, or not to be, is a matter of being a somewhat better man, or a man perhaps not quite so good. It is a matter of life and death. > James Denney

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him. > H. Matthews

Let it be known on whose side you are. If there is any doubt about it, something is wrong. > Author Unknown

We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us. > F. W. Boreham

As sure as I lived, I knew that I possessed a will, and that when I willed to do something or willed not to do something, nobody else was making the decision. > Augustine of Hippo

The chains of habit are to weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. > Samuel Johnson

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. > Harry Emerson Fosdick

When a Christian is in the wrong place, his right place is empty. > T. J. Bach

See also Deuteronomy 30:19 -20; Proverbs 1:28 -29.