Before you chose God, He chose you.
Rick Warren
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We know, dear brothers and sisters,
that God loves you and has chosen you to be his own people.
1 Thessalonians 1:4 NLT
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We did not happen to be–we were chosen by God to exist.
Mother Angelica
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The greatest miracle of all is that God looks at me, at you,
in all our dirt and brokenness
and still says, “You are beautiful, I choose you. You are mine.”
(unknown)
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As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given,
we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace.
It is the life of the Beloved,
lived in a world constantly trying to convince us
that the burden is on us to prove that we are worthy of being loved.
Henri Nouwen