Elect Quotes

228 quotes by 196 authors

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil,… — Thomas Carlyle
Our Father awaits us with great zeal and desire, and with love He will see us returning from afar, and He will look upon us… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations… — William J. H. Boetcker
These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority - the party of… — Simon Schama
Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist. — Jay Leno
Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage. — Walther Rathenau
Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christâ€™s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary… — Charles Spurgeon
God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word. — John Calvin
Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit. — Thomas Boston
The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace. — Thomas Boston
Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done… — John George Nicolay
I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly… — Robert Purvis
You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. — Barack Obama
If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every… — Mark Twain
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one… — Mark Twain
If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused… — George Carlin
If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95! — Kinky Friedman
If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I… — Albert Einstein
I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates. — Ken Mehlman
We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and… — Helen Keller

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