Elected because I selected.
permalink source: Emir Caner (on predestination and free will)I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love. So I am forced to accept that doctrine.
permalink source: Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, book 2, page 47