God plans for everyone to be successful. If we're not, we've chosen to follow a different set of blueprints.
If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
He who reaches all his goals has probably not chosen them high enough.
There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.
This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.
Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.
I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
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.
. . . 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 which that struggle was made, and 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, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.
Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones.
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
It occurs to me: why is it mainly women, who to pass on the faith? Simply because the one who brought us Jesus is a woman. It is the path chosen by Jesus. He wanted to have a mother: the gift of faith comes to us through women, as Jesus came to us through Mary.
I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.