Quotes about Election

The reason for God's keeping some for himself and rejecting others is to be sought nowhere but in God himself.

Therefore, God's foreknowledge cannot be the reason of our election, because when God [looks into the future and] surveys all mankind, he will find them all, from the first to the last, under the same curse.

How childish is the attempt to meet this argument by the following sophism! "We were chosen because we were worthy, and because God foresaw that we would be worthy."

And surely it is an amazing counsel of God that when he had the whole earth in his hands he chose his people out of the contemptible folk, rather than out of the upper classes who might have brought the name of Christ greater credit through their own excellencies.

But we are not to forget that the stability of our salvation is not in us but in the secret election of God.

Unless God himself had by his election redeemed us from ruin, there would have been nothing but ruin to foresee.

It is evident from this that people rage against Christ himself when they raise a hue and cry upon hearing that by the will of God some are freely chosen and others are rejected; they do it because they cannot bear to let God have his way.

Thus Paul denies that the causes of our election can be sought anywhere except in the hidden good pleasure of God.

The word predestinate refers not to election but to that decree or purpose of God by which he has ordained that his own bear the cross.

This election [2016], and I believe this, is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration and reform our laws to make your life better.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president.