To be chosen as the Beloved of God is something radically different. Instead of excluding others, it includes others. Instead of rejecting others as less valuable, it accepts others in their own uniqueness. It is not a competitive, but a compassionate choice. Our minds have great difficulty in coming to grips with such a reality. Maybe our minds will never understand it. Perhaps it is only our hearts that can accomplish this. Every time we hear about 'chosen people', 'chosen talents', or 'chosen friends', we almost automatically start thinking about elites and find ourselves not far from feelings of jealousy, anger, or resentment. Not seldom has the perception of others as being chosen led to aggression, violence, and war.
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ROBERTS What I’ve come to realize I that I don’t like action for action’s sake. Mindless explosions, s... J.M. RICHARDS A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You... J.M. DARHOWER His head exploded. I’d never seen someone’s head explode. I never thought I would. Maybe in the ... J.M. SULLIVAN Stacey muttered, "But I hate this school, and this city, and the sooner I leave, the better. I want ... J.M. REEP To live will be an awfully big adventure. J.M. BARRIE Shoot the Wendybird! J.M. BARRIE Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like ... J.M. BARRIE Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could... J.M. BARRIE Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the ... J.M. BARRIE Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by;... J.M. BARRIE Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly,... J.M. BARRIE I am the best there ever was! J.M. BARRIE He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. J.M. BARRIE One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he... J.M. BARRIE Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny... J.M. BARRIE But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the c... J.M. BARRIE Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she wa... J.M. BARRIE Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forge... J.M. BARRIE She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till m... J.M. BARRIE Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John... J.M. BARRIE Two is the beginning of the end. J.M. BARRIE Forever is a very long time Peter J.M. BARRIE After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the ... J.M. BARRIE Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one g... J.M. BARRIE When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all... J.M. BARRIE It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the day... J.M. BARRIE Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ev... J.M. BARRIE Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "t... J.M. BARRIE I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be? J.M. BARRIE If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. J.M. BARRIE Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever. J.M. BARRIE Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands! J.M. BARRIE Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forev... J.M. BARRIE I stretched out my arms and laid my palms on the earth, and, yes, the rocking persisted, the rocking... J.M. COETZEE Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a p... J.M. REEP We walked to dinner, ate together, and talked nearly the whole time. I was amazed that I had as much... J.M. RICHARDS Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! How am I deficient? You're just a boy. J.M. BARRIE I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. J.M. BARRIE David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'. J.M. BARRIE I don’t know if you have ever seem a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of othe... J.M. BARRIE Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherw... J.M. COETZEE If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't ma... J.M. BARRIE Yes, you see, there’s no such thing as coincidence. There are no accidents in life. Everything tha... J.M. DARHOWER Peter,' she asked, trying to speak firmly, 'what are your exact feelings for me?' Those of a de... J.M. BARRIE (I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retri... J.M. COETZEE All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was... J.M. BARRIE His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of... J.M. COETZEE Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you w... J.M. DARHOWER I'm not young enough to know everything. J.M. BARRIE You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and yo... J.M. DARHOWER I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for. J.M. AUGUST