Elect Quotes
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It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
Oscar Wilde -
Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.
R. C. Sproul
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Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!
Clara Barton -
We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
Joshua A. Norton -
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
Oscar Wilde -
We don’t know whether they’re going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.
Clark Ashton Smith -
We are taking this step to secure permanent capital to grow; to share ownership broadly among our employees now and through future compensation; and to permit us to use publicly traded securities to finance strategic acquisitions that we may elect to make in the future.
Henry Paulson -
I may go for it or I may not. It all depends on what I elect to do on my backswing.
Billy Joe Patton
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The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
Harry Hopkins -
The devil has his elect.
Thomas Carlyle -
People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.
Eric Garcetti