Top 1200 Chosen By God Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Having chosen something worth doing, never give up, and try not to let anyone down.

In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-ripped.One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God.A beautiful idea.But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.

God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, "If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross." There is unbelief, there is even rebellion, in the attitude that says, "God has no right to do this to five men unless...

Throughout my acting career by far, I have chosen roles that are not only challenging but unique at the same time.

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.

God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

All my first albums, they're full of heart and emotion, and the songs are wonderful, but they wouldn't have been the takes I would have chosen.

The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.

I wish everybody in the Republican Party had rejected Mr. Trump and chosen someone else.

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance. . . .

The holidays are important, but the path I've chosen doesn't take that into consideration. I do what I can to enjoy them, but it's one of the sacrifices of being an athlete.

The iPhone was such a phenomenon that even the humble journalists chosen for an early look were thrust into a spotlight.

It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally uncommon that God is apprehended in experience. Nor, in fact, can the divine and human meeting happen any other way. God is not a God of the pulpit, though the pulpit proclaim him. He is a God in and of the histories of humankind. What is significant is that I should have to say so.

To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly obvious to ourselves and all those around us. It means to live in such a way that when people see us they think, Thank God for God, if God would create such a life.

So, how to become friends with money? First, you have to forget everything you've ever been told about it. And then you have to put in its place a new message: There's nothing in the universe that isn't God. And God, and the energy which is God, is found in everything, including money. It isn't like God is everywhere except in your billfold. In fact, God is everywhere.

In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring them to the light because THE GOD THAT WE SERVE is a God of LIGHT, a God of LOVE, and a God of CARING.

Love is a pathway of many colors and dead ends. But when the right path is chosen, the sights are amazing.

As I have come to realize that we all live and move and have our being in God, the names of each person, species, creature, and element are superimposed over God's name. God is reality; God is the source of reality of each of us. Panentheism seeing the world as in God - puts God's "name" first, but each of our names are included and preserved in their distinctiveness within the divine reality.

I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

The third major characteristic of God - "infinitude" - is the catchall, the universal modifier of Christian theology. God is not merely a being; he is infinite being. God is not merely good; he is infinite goodness. God is not merely wise; he is infinite wisdom. And so on down the list. God is exaggeration run amuck.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

It was a huge honour to be chosen by the Lions and to lead the side, but the greatest of all is to represent your country and win.

I have been lucky that good people have chosen me to be a part of their films, and I am really grateful.

The 'Voice Kids U.K.' songs were chosen for me, and I had to try and make them mine.

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

I've chosen to live my life in love and that has made even the most trying times beautiful experiences.

In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.

If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.

Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

I've chosen to GROW, to EXPAND, to INCREASE and to become RICHER - because i want to BLESS the world more.

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.

I have always chosen to portray roles which inspired me and mostly that I enjoy it in the first place.

You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days.

The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.

Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

How hard is it for God to get your attention? Do you regularly practice turning aside in your day? That is, taking a moment to listen to God- because God, through the Holy Spirit, really is speaking, because we know, every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit.

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.