I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth…

Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given…

— Alexandra Adornetto

You want a child who never makes you anything but proud? Please. Don't bother taking on parenthood if you can't handle the fact that…

— Alice Dreger

... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious…

— Symeon the New Theologian

“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to…

— Anonymous

I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your…

— Vincent de Paul

For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the…

— Pope Pius XI

I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to bear their…

— Pope Francis

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land…

— Yasmina Khadra

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are…

— Matt LeBlanc

People have a whole lot more choices than they've had in the past, and I have only earned the right to be considered -…

— Kenneth Cole

I would have let you shoot me without further ado! But it is not possible to hang the German Reichsmarschall! I cannot permit this.…

— Hermann Goring

My Chosen Daughter, No one can define you without your permission. I want you to be so secure in who you are in Me…

— God

The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not…

— Samir Selmanovic