When man decides, and when he consummates this decision in action, man experiences. [1] Effort and decision are an essential part of the acquirement of survival values. [2]
Man’s choosing between good and evil is influenced, not only by the keenness of his moral nature, but also by such influences as ignorance, immaturity, and delusion. [3] Man’s moral nature would be impotent without the art of measurement, the discrimination embodied in his ability to scrutinize meanings. [4]
The very power of choice is the universe insignia of freewill creaturehood, that constitutes man’s greatest opportunity and his supreme cosmic responsibility. [5] Upon the steadfastness and wisdom of decision-actions the Supreme Being depends for the actuality of experiential evolution. [6]
“How long will you tarry in the valley of decision? the Father never compels any man to enter the kingdom. The invitation ever has been and always will be: Whosoever will, let him come and freely partake of the water of life. [7]
It had always been Jesus’ practice, when facing any new or serious decisions, to withdraw for communion with his own spirit that he might seek to know the will of God. [8] Jesus’ great decisions were: [9]
Philip faced the question of a lifetime when he had to make the decision of whether or not to follow Jesus. [10]
Man consciously grows from the material toward the spiritual by the strength, power, and persistency of his own decisions. [11]
Man are so devoid of courageous decisions and consecrated co-operation that indwelling Adjusters find it next to impossible to communicate directly with the human mind. [12] Thus always it was and forever will be: Men must arrive at their own decisions. [13] Human beings below the third and second circles of attainment rarely hear the Adjuster’s direct voice except in moments of supreme desire. [14]
Adjusters are not interested in making the mortal career easy; rather are they concerned in making our life reasonably difficult and rugged, so that decisions will be stimulated and multiplied. [15] Decicions supply psychic fulcrum for Adjusters to apply a spiritual lever of uplifting and advancing illumination. [16]
The spirit world is governed on the principle of respecting our freewill choice provided the course we may choose is not detrimental to we or injurious to our fellows. [17]
The seraphim guard us; they do not seek directly to influence us; we must chart our own course, but angels then act to make the best possible use of the course we have chosen. [18]
The supremacy of a decision, its crisis relationship, has a great deal to do with its circle-making influence. [19] Decisions open up new capacity for growth. [20] Moral decisions causes divine invasion of soul. [21] Numbers of decisions, frequent repetitions, persistent repetitions, are also essential to the habit-forming certainty of such reactions. [22]
The functioning presence of subabsolute and experiential Deity is definitely and directly influenced by the decisions, choices, and will-attitudes of such finite creature beings. [23]