Tim LaHaye Quotes

Examine what is around you and see that princes and masters have power over your body alone, not over your soul, and always keep this in mind. Why when they order, say, to kill or to do something else, inappropriate, unrighteous and harmful for the soul, it is not proper to obey them, even though they torture your body. God has created the soul free and self-ruled, and it is free to do as it wills, good or bad

You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

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.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

People have choices in this life. They should exercise them responsibly.

Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.

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

Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.

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.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

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

It's my life and my death.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.