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Quotes About Chosen

It's a very remarkable story.""Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
~ James Hilton, Random Harvest
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.
~ Kanye West
They wouldn't have picked you to tell their story if you weren't the one.
~ N.E. Henderson
You don't have any morals, do you, Senator? You're worse than me, do any fucking thing to get what you want." Against his chest she said, "Some people are chosen, Ray. I'm one of those. I make morals, I don't follow them." "I like that. You make morals. That's good." She said, "Morals are for the masses, the little people, to keep them from too much independent thinking.
~ James W. Hall
An orphan," he said wearily. "This is my nightmare. A thousand wannabe younglings showing up on my doorstep, hoping they're the Chosen Whoevers, wanting to know how to lift rocks.
~ Jason Fry
Aspiramos siempre, supongo, a ser unos elegidos, y es improbable que de otro modo estuviéramos muy dispuestos a recorrer el trayecto entero de una vida entera, que corta o larga nos va rindiendo.
~ Javier Marías
think men will change their mind or their beliefs, that they will gradually discover that they can't do without us, that we will be the exception in their lives or the visitors who end up staying, that they will eventually grow tired of those other invisible women whose existence we begin to doubt or whom we prefer to think do not exist, the more we see of the men and the more we love them despite ourselves; that we will be the chosen
~ Javier Marías
He stopped thinking why pick on me? and started thinking I am chosen.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
ENLIGHTENMENT CONSCIOUSLY CHOSEN means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life. It means choosing to dwell in the state of presence rather than in time. It
~ Eckhart Tolle
Ethan knew the word for one of exceptional import. Almost everybody in the neighbourhood had "troubles," frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had "complications." To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death-warrant. People struggled on for years with "troubles," but they almost always succumbed to "complications.
~ Edith Wharton
God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?
~ Aleksandar Hemon
The twelve entered on the last and highest stage of discipleship when they were chosen by their Master from the mass of His followers, and formed into a select band, to be trained for the great work of the apostleship.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
They were to be, in the mean time, students of Christian doctrine, and occasional fellow-laborers in the work of the kingdom, and eventually Christ's chosen trained agents for propagating the faith after He Himself had left the earth.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
If I am successful in my chosen calling in life, I am thriving. But that's not entirely true. There are many seemingly successful people in and out of ministry who are nevertheless miserable.
~ Alfred Ells
My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don't watch it, I'll never know.
~ Johnny Depp
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light" (1 Peter 2:9,
~ Reggie McNeal
Always it refers to God's favor and care for those he chooses to be "with." It makes all the difference to their lives.
~ Richard Bauckham
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
~ Richard Rohr
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.
~ Richard Rohr
Behold! Percy shouted. The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!
~ Rick Riordan
Very good, Jason Grace, Notus said. You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy.
~ Rick Riordan
The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!
~ Rick Riordan
God's chosen and redeemed people need to receive the divine revelation concerning God Himself and His economy for their training and building up as His testimony....
~ Witness Lee