 All the molestations of marriage are abundantly recompensed with the other comforts which God bestoweth on them who make a wise choice of a wife. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael |
| To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law of grace and love - but that one must do so. The first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all superstitions, all blind taboos and religious formalities, indeed from all empty forms of legalism. Author: Thomas Merton |
| The believer at minimum can declare by his will that he wants the truth, that he wants to know and obey the truth. By prayer and by choice of will he ought to resist every satanic lie, whatever form it may take a thought, an imagination or an argument. Author: Watchman Nee |
| A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. Author: Thomas Aquinas |
| Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us. Author: William Law |
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| Many of our trouble occur because we base our choices on unreliable authorities; culture ("everyone is doing it"), tradition ("we've always done it"), reason ("it seems logical"), or emotion ("it just felt right"). Author: Rick Warren |
| God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you're tempted to express the exact opposite quality. Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that opportunity. Author: Rick Warren |
| If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible. Author: Jerry Falwell |
| Anything that does not affect your destiny is up to you. Author: T.D. Jakes |
| If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them? Christ did. Author: Max Lucado |
| Religion is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Author: Thomas Watson |
