Quotes about Chosen People

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods. Votes: 4

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background. Votes: 4

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for. Votes: 4

There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens. Votes: 4

To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel. Votes: 4

The Jews were God's chosen people. Votes: 3

There is no one true church, no one chosen people. Votes: 3

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. Votes: 3

I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God. Votes: 3

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. Votes: 3

Mommy is one of the chosen people " and daddy believes that Jesus is magic! Votes: 3

God has taken his chosen people, the problem being you are the only non-chosen person. Votes: 3

If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan. Votes: 3

Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer...and we are his chosen people... Votes: 3

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. Votes: 3

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind. Votes: 3

We are God's chosen people.We are God's treasured possession.Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God's children. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings. Votes: 3

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 natural world. Votes: 3

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital . Votes: 3

Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks. Votes: 3

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light. Votes: 3

God took his chosen people and we are what's left. He looked at what's left and thought: I could kill you all, but let's see what happens. A little social experiment. Votes: 3

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 peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. Votes: 3

I have my disagreements with President Obama, but President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the people around him. He's chosen people who have been pretty scandal-free. Votes: 3

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 people, and Daddy believes that Jesus is magic! Votes: 3

Jews, I know you're God's chosen people and the rest of us are just 'whatever', but when Israel behaves like a violent, psychopathic bully and someone mentions it, that doesn't make them anti-Semitic. Votes: 3

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 for the chosen people to do what they like. Votes: 3

As for the very first settlers, they were not even free. The founders were not a chosen people except in the old Australian joke that they were chosen by the best judges in England. Votes: 3

I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring to see people snub their noses at the American empire and succeed. Votes: 3

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 people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption. Votes: 3

The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'. Votes: 3

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people. Votes: 3

We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God's blessed. I tell you that God doesn't love us any more than He does the Russians. Votes: 3

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 God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism. Votes: 3

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 demonic religion and returns to the faith of his fathers--the faith which embraces Jesus Christ and His Gospel. Votes: 3

It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day. Votes: 3

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 and one there, but a people. The truth is a sanctifying power, but the church militant is not yet the church triumphant... Votes: 3

The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah. Votes: 3

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 when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge. Votes: 3

In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex. Votes: 3

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 want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death? Votes: 3

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 nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth... Votes: 3

I want adopted people to know they were chosen. Votes: 2

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans. Votes: 2

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not. Votes: 2

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. Votes: 2

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. Votes: 2

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. Votes: 2

People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me. Votes: 2

I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party. Votes: 2

I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't. Votes: 2

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play. Votes: 2

I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen. Votes: 2

I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with. Votes: 2

Most people have a concentration in particular areas; it might be politics, it might be science, it might be business, it might be sports. I care about all of those, and that's why I've chosen the formats I chose. Votes: 2

There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people. Votes: 2

Calling people; chosen generation! Votes: 0

Couldn't believe that out of 70K people, I was chosen... Votes: 0

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft. Votes: 0

The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place. Votes: 0

Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people. Votes: 0

too much alcohol hampers people's ability to parent. That's why I've chosen to remain childless. Votes: 0

God's Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people. Votes: 0

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. Votes: 0

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions. Votes: 0

To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people! Votes: 0

Leadership is bringing people into new realms of excellence and challenging them to become distinguished in their chosen field. Votes: 0

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions. Votes: 0

The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour. Votes: 0

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. Votes: 0

It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives. Votes: 0

The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen. Votes: 0

Everybody has friends they dislike; people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious, more circumspect. Votes: 0

I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly. Votes: 0

I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves. Votes: 0

They were truly new people. No longer Forest People, certainly not the Horde. They were outcasts. They were the chosen. Those who had died. Those who lived. Votes: 0

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be. Votes: 0

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us. Votes: 0

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another. Votes: 0

When people refer to me as a 'regular' girl...it's code word for 'fat' in Hollywood....But...my body has chosen its shape. I'd rather be strong than skinny. Votes: 0

Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession that has become radical. Votes: 0

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals,water, and air;shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife. Votes: 0