Top 1200 Chosen By God Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor of theology will remember my passion for the Eucharist from our classes. Blessed be God for this madness... We must live our commitment to society steeped in the Eucharist. We must take the Eucharist to the streets, both in the heart of the city and on the outskirts, to the poor neighborhoods and to hospitals... In order to obey the Resurrected Christ, I dare say with Pope John Paul II: 'Open wide the doors of your heart to the Holy Spirit.'

I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.

When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.

I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's timing. I release my deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the gentle yet often swift pacing of God. As I open my heart to God's unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As I relax into God's timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set the tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right time and place, open and available to God's opportunities.

The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down.

In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

If I'm chosen for the Asian Cup, then I must help the team win. That's the bottom line.

Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

In films and TV, actors get chosen based on their capabilities, charisma and the image they carry.

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you

Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy; Companions of my young desires; in doubt My oracles; my wings in high pursuit. Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours; Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul, Our faces beaming with unearthly love;-- Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in spite of the mess we are making of this beautiful Planet Earth which God has given us, God still loves the world.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is such a reassuring thing. The world is in God's hands; it is his world. We sinners have messed things up and the amount of human division and cruelty is so terrible, but fortunately God is God.

It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will let you know something gradually over the years. And in that word from God you will find the inner place from which to live your life. Solitude is where spiritual ministry begins. That's where Jesus listened to God. That's where we listen to God.

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.

God bless every soul that we lost. God bless the families who have to endure that loss, and God guide us to our reunion in heaven, and God bless the United States of America.

I've chosen opportunities where I might fail rather than live in the shadow of my own potential.

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality.

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

When I was at Yale, I was one of the students chosen to go to China. I lived there for 1-1/2 years and I can speak Mandarin fluently.

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.

If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.

I am honored to have been chosen by Gov. Scott to serve Floridians as their lieutenant governor.

Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.

Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;" and so you stain the honor of God.

In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in the joys and sorrows of the world. And I try to see God in everything and treat all life with reverence.

I've always been a straight shooter and an open book. It's how I've chosen to live my life.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

Most important, do not ever think that you and God are separate. Think always, "God is with me; He is inside me; He is around me. All there is is God. I myself am God. I am the Infinite, the Eternal. I am not two; I am one, only one. There is no one else besides me. I and God are one and the same." To realize this Unity, the first step is to develop Self-confidence. It comes when you realize that God is not outside of you.

I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

I obviously enjoy being wealthy. It's enabled me to have a career that I've chosen and not one that I've been forced into.

And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also?

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers-he is offended by Anything Less. If your prayers aren't impossible to You, they are insulting to God- why? Because they don't require divine intervention. But ask God to part the Red Sea or make the sun stand still or float an iron axhead and God is moved to Omnipotent action

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

As you all know, Prince is no longer with us. It is extremely difficult for me, and that is why I have chosen not to discuss it.

Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.