Quotes about Chosen

Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’

Those who walk the full and entire journey are considered "called" or "chosen" in the Bible, perhaps "fated" or "destined" in world mythology and literature, but always they are the ones who have heard some deep invitation to "something more," and set out to find it by both grace and daring.

Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.

God will not permit all men to enter heaven; those who are his own he will receive with all readiness.

To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.

I have chosen you." Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God, but that He has got you.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?

Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.