God ordains opposition so that he may prove to the opponents, who are many in number, to the few that God chooses to bless, that if God's hand is with that few, the many cannot oppose and be successful.
It's really unfortunate that instead of focusing on the really important issues in our world, Donald Trump chooses to make personal attacks on people.
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.
Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.
I'm so happy for anyone who chooses to get married! I want more people to join the club.
To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.
Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art
I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.
Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not just as a teacher or as a pastor or a banker or a lawyer, but in government and we have to have elected officials in government and we have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.
The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.
People don't choose their calling, it chooses them.
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
He also chooses his enemies.
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.