St. John Henry Newman - Many Called, Few Chosen
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"Your very perplexity in reconciling the surface of things with our Lord's announcements, the very temptation you lie under to explain away the plain words of Scripture, shows you that your standard of good and evil, and the standard of all around you, must be very different from God's standard."
In this sermon from his Anglican period, Newman reflects upon the challenging truth proclaimed uniformly throughout Scripture: the chosen are few, though many are called.
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Many Called, Few Chosen full text: https://newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume5/sermon18.html
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