Chosen Quotes - Page 38

• Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the back of your neck stands up it is because you are fighting your role in the scripture.

  Mark Driscoll

  Fighting, Hair, Roles

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• The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

  George Santayana

  Progress, May, Evolution

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.151, Library of Alexandria

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• I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Dream, World, Awareness

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.291, Carcanet

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• When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Frustration, Power, Grace

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• Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will agree and half of the mind will disagree, and whatever you choose, you are choosing only the half. The remaining half is going to take revenge. The unchosen part, the left over, will wait for its chance to show you that whatever you have chosen is wrong. But it does not matter which part you choose. Choice itself is wrong.

  Rajneesh

  Revenge, Choices, Waiting

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• Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Liberty, Berlin, Ingredients

  "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, (Introduction), 2002.

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• Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.

  Jay Leno

  Liberty, Irs, Libertarian

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• The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nature, Science, Challenges

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• When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as water that fails; nor hath he said at any time to the seed of Jacob, "Seek ye my face in vain." If Christ be chosen for the foundation of our supply, he will not fail us.

  John Owen

  Heart, Water, Faces

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.83, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.

  John Owen

  Heart, Loving Friends, Spirit

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

  Paul Dirac

  Nature, Science, Interesting

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• The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheism, World

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• The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Fear, Selfish

  "The Elders Speak: Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter And Mary Robinson". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 04, 2010.

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• Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Compassion, Issues

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.110, Mango Media Inc.

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• The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.

  Thomas Brooks

  Spring, Past, Men

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• For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mean, Men, Grace

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• A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware of all that is. In this choicelessness you will be in the middle. The moment you choose, you choose some extreme. The moment you choose, you choose against something; otherwise there is no question of choice. Being in a choiceless awareness is another meaning of being in the middle.

  Rajneesh

  Choices, Prejudice, Moments

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• Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the total, but it is never for a chosen one. Love is always for the chosen one, devotion is for the whole. So you cannot be a devotee of Rama. If you are for Rama, you are only a lover; and when you are a lover, then competition is bound to be there. Then Krishna will be a competitor, and Christ will be a competitor, and the same jealousies, the same conflicts, and all the same nonsense will follow. It has followed.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Love Is, Competition

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• I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humble, Hands, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.236, Wildside Press LLC

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• I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment. ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Sexy, Commitment, Emotional

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• Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

  Mathew Staver

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

  David R. Brower

  Government, Parent, Historical

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

  Herman Melville

  Israel, People, Democracy

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.151

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• When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Children, Army

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

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