Chosen Not Cheated Quotes

“It stings sometimes—that feeling of being forgotten and unnoticed. It’s hard to make an entrance when no one’s watching you in the first place.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“It took me a long while to realize it but being unseen didn’t mean I didn’t matter. It didn’t mean that I wasn’t chosen. When you think about it, it all comes down to who’s looking. You don’t need every eye on you. Just the right one.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“We will ask ourselves: Do I matter? And that question will turn our insides out and press heavy on our hearts hoping that the answer is the biggest yes. That we do matter. Small as we are. Unseen and unknown as we are. That we matter. And knowing that should make all the difference in our lives.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“In a sea of a thousand faces God’s eyes are always locked on us (like the slow-motion scenes of eyes locking in a crowd in the movie The Passion of the Christ). We all tie for first place in His heart and His gaze is firmly set on each of us. Not to put us down when we’re wrong or off, but because He’s enamoured by us. There’s no kinder heart, no kinder eyes and no kinder love than that of God. His words of affirmation over me have always filled my hunger.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“I want to get paid to be myself. Sounds smart until you realize you're clueless about who you are.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Destiny is a map that lights up with every step you take.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Is germination the moment that changes everything for a plant? Surviving winter? Producing fruit? No. Every moment counts.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Every stage in life is a course in trust.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Tables aren’t meant for just one person. That’s a desk. A desk only admits one. And who holds a dinner at a desk anyway?”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“There is more than enough room for each one of us — at work, in the sky or ocean.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“All of life is lived in between ellipses. We’re all uniquely shaped punctuation marks to the epic God is writing in the history of mankind.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Why don’t you trust me when I love you?”
— Jesus”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“We live a less than life when we remain longer than we should in certain seasons of our lives.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Be sloppy. Commit to learning in front of others. The world isn’t looking at you anyway, right?”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“I think the beautiful ones are here with us It’s you, and me. And we’re only invisible because the world’s not looking yet...”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“In a world of fame, followers, likes and paparazzi, we need to aspire to be something other than popular.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“I heard God tell me, “The very things you think you did right are the very things you did wrong.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Fame comes and goes in waves. So we hold our breath and hope to not get carried away.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“God can’t bless who you pretend to be. His promises, His blessings need your fingerprint and DNA.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Count all the ways you’re chosen by God even when, nay, especially when you feel cheated.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Why don’t you believe that I chose you? Why do you always feel the need to choose yourself?"
— God”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“There’s no greater courage and strength that compares to knowing you are loved.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Safe is always slower—whether it has to do with money, relationships or plain old life.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“If you’re like me, this has been the happy-unhappy song of your life. You want the bright lights of being somebody, but you don’t necessarily hate who you are.

There’s greatness resident in all of us. We all get a piece of the sky to light up. You already know that. But why doesn’t anyone besides yourself, your bestie, your mum or that teacher from elementary school seem to see it?”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“I’m slowly coming to realize that there’s no yellow brick road to utopia. Utopia isn’t a destination. It’s the journey. It’s the everyday moments and an environment you carry within you. It’s heaven on earth in your heart stretching its vines into the real world. That’s the reality of (earthly) utopia. Sure, life is long and winding with detours and delays, but ask anyone who’s a little further ahead and they’ll tell you this: Reality is always far better than the beachfront wallpaper utopia promised.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Here’s to ditching the screensaver and rocking the light you’re chosen to shine in.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“We think chosen means easy, and big, and great, and definitely without challenges. But that’s the lie that sinks our dreams.”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts