Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses
It is not what I do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through me. God does not want worldly successes, He wants me. He wants my heart in submission to Him. Life is not just a few years to spend on self indulgence and career advancement. It is a privilege, a responsibility, a stewardship to be lived according to a much higher calling, God's calling. This alone gives true meaning to life.
I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to start depopulating the military.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.
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.
Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.
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.
To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.
No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe.
When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.