"Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure."

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Source : Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.624, Harper Collins

Wayne Grudem

#People Quotes #Sovereign Quotes #Merit Quotes

“It is a natural stronghold for themâ€”they can infest this maze of iron and water like a horde of starving cockroaches, and theyâ€™ll be just as hard to anticipate and to kill in such close quarters.â€ â€œWow,â€ Shane said. â€œYou really know how to drum up team spirit. Did you print up Team Total Fail jerseys, too?â€ Myrnin gave him an entirely crazy smile. â€œWould you be surprised if I had?”
“I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.”
“In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.”
“The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.”
“To think of a film from the point of view of a tank barrel is already so inhumanly positioned. This is when film can reveal itself scandalously.”
“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”
“Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.”

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