Quotes About Chosen

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Sorry hun, but unlike you, I'm not a doorknob where everyone gets a turn. I'm more of a casino where only the lucky ones hit the jackpot.

It was that moment, perhaps, that our lives changed. Not before in Scyros, nor before that still, on Pelion. But here, as we began to understand the grandness, now and always, that would follow him wherever he went. He had chosen to become a legend, and this was the beginning.

Todas las naciones paganas han tenido y tienen no solo su religión oficial, sino también otra a la cual solo han podido acceder los filósofos elegidos.

Le chagrin qui n'est nullement une conclusion pessimiste librement tirée d'un ensemble de circonstances funestes, mais la reviviscence intermittente et involontaire d'une impression spécifique, venue du dehors, et que nous n'avons pas choisie.

His weakness shall o'ercome Satanic strength,   And all the world, and mass of sinful flesh;   That all the Angels and aethereal Powers—   They now, and men hereafter—may discern   From what consummate virtue I have chose   This perfet man, by merit called my Son,   To earn salvation for the sons of men.     So spake the Eternal Father, and all Heaven   Admiring stood a space;

Maybe this is one of the secrets of death: that you die only when your invisible, unchosen lives have also fulfilled themselves, so that you bring into the eternal world not only your one known life but also the unknown, unchosen lives as well.

Hay ciertos individuos que a veces, sin merecerlo en absoluto, son elegidos de los dioses. Lo obtienen todo sin el menor esfuerzo

I'm sorry that the family I was given has created so much chaos in the family I've chosen.

I've decided she's worthy of something more special, something worthy of my powers.

Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too many souls.

You are not here by accident. You have been chosen by the Creator of the universe. Your destiny is not determined by external circumstances. Your destiny is determined by Almighty God. God has already laid out a life of victory for you.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

but the pleasures that we have chosen can be a long way off if their advent is certain and if, while we await them, we can give ourselves over in the meantime to an idle seeking to attract and to an incapacity for love.

I have chosen you and not rejected you. Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will hold on to you with My righteous right hand. (Isa. 41:9b-10)

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

Friends are the family that you choose.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

The Bible says we are forgiven. It says we are saints. It says we are children of God, citizens of heaven, members of God's family, and chosen members of a royal priesthood. It says we are salt and light, we are people who dwell in a city set on a hill. It says we are co-heirs with Christ, ready to inherit the eternal life reserved for the saints. We cannot be separated from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.

There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you

Put on then, as Gods chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. -Colossians 3:12-13

Chance disappears when you make a decision.