Quotes about God's Chosen People

Thomas Jefferson

Those who labor 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.

Johann Gottfried von Herder

It is the apparent plan of nature that as one human being, so also one generation, and also one nationality learn, learn incessantly, from and with the others, until all have comprehended the difficult lesson: No nationality has been solely designated by God as the chosen people of the earth; above all we must seek the truth and cultivate the garden of the common good. Hence no nationality of Europe may separate itself sharply, and foolishly say, "With us alone, with us dwells all wisdom.

Rashi

Should the people of the world say to Israel, “You are robbers, because you took by force the land of the 7 nations of Canaan” Israel may reply to them. “All the earth belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He; He created it and gave it to whom He pleased. When He willed He gave it to them, and when He willed He took it from them and gave it to us.

Shlomo ben Yitzchak

David A. Bednar

As we learn in [the] scriptures, the fundamental purposes for the gift of agency were to love one another and to choose God. Thus we become God's chosen and invite His tender mercies as we use our agency to choose God.

W. N. Ewer

How odd Of God To choose The Jews

Andrew Preston

The American conception that liberty’s task was to oppose concentrated power, produced a sense that the country had a mission to reshape the world in form much like its own, and enlarged a conviction that America was God’s country, with an exceptional and newly chosen people.

James Hal Cone

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

Michael von Faulhaber

God always punishes the tormentors of his Chosen People, the Jews …. No Roman Catholic approves of the persecutions of Jews in Germany

The Nazis had started vicious persecution of Jews in Germany. In the early days of irrational anti-Semitism and Nazism he preached against the irrational Nazi propaganda – See {638920}. However, when it became clear that the Nazis had the upper hand, he publicly recognized the Nazi government as legitimate, required Catholic clergy to remain loyal to the Nazi government, and maintained bridges between fascism and the Church He then became silent on the terrible, inhuman, un-Christian treatment of the Jews concentrating his efforts on negotiating the best for the Catholics that he could get. See {639129}.

Wilfred M. McClay

The notion that America is a nation chosen by God, a New Israel destined for a providential mission of world redemption, has been a near constant of the national experience.

Yehuda Ashlag

Why are we the chosen people? We must set a good example to the entire world because we are better qualified than all other nations. It is not because we are more idealistic than them, but because we suffered from tyranny more than all other nations. For that reason we are more prepared to seek counsel that will end tyranny from the land.

God's Chosen People Quotes