Quotes about Election

If I could be elected president, I wanted to do what I could to bring about a spiritual revival in America.

What is it to be God's elect? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.

What is it to be God's elect ? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.

I think running for president causes more stress.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

Hobson's choice

It seems harsh to many to think that God chooses some and rejects others, and does not consider men's worth, that by his own free will he chooses whom he pleases and moreover rejects others. But what is this scruple except a desire to call God to order and subject him to their judgment?

Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

Christ is indeed presented to all, but God opens the eyes of the elect alone, and enables them by faith to seek after him.

Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.

he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.