Chosen People Quotes
38 Chosen People quotes by 32 unique authors
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The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.
— Amy Chua
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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…
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Mommy is one of the chosen people … and daddy believes that Jesus is magic!
— Sarah Silverman
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I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.
— Rick Perry
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The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human--these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen…
— Leo Strauss
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I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely realms of our…
— Fred Bear
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And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy…
— Albert J. Beveridge
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God never intended us to want anything more than we want Him. Just the slightest glimpse into His Word proves that, Look at what the…
— Lysa TerKeurst
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We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as…
— Jostein Gaarder
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The god of Judaism is the devil. The Jew will not be recognized by God as one of His chosen people until he abandons his…
— David Chilton
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Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.
— Jerry Falwell
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...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for…
— Abraham Lincoln
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God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots, not one here…
— Ellen G. White
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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…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
— Joseph Campbell
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The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially…
— Israel Shenker
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As our planet takes action to cast out its manmade poisons and heal its man-caused wounds, many human inhabitants will no doubt give way to…
— Benjamin Hoff
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The Jewish conception of the Jews as the Chosen People who must eventually rule the world forms indeed the basis of Rabbinical Judaism... The Jewish…
— Nesta Helen Webster
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If my Catholic boyfriend and I ever have a kid, we'll just be honest with it. We'll say that Mommy is one of God's chosen…
— Sarah Silverman
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Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that…
— Jefferson Davis
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The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter…
— Bruce Kent
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