Calling Quotes - Page 17

• God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

  Craig Groeschel

  Church, World

  Craig Groeschel (2010). “The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist”, p.221, Harper Collins

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• The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you hope and a future. God speaks in the past tense about battles you’re currently fighting. And He buries the shame of yesterday in order to resurrect the moment you are in and sustain you in the season He is calling you to embrace.

  Steven Furtick

  Fighting, Past, Reality

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.154, Multnomah

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• Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from calling your name and setting you apart. He placed you on the earth at a certain time for a pre-decided purpose.

  Steven Furtick

  Names, Purpose, Earth

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.38, Multnomah

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• At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

  Paul Hawken

  Stealing, Selling, Gross Domestic Product

  Paul Hawken's Commencement Address at University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.

  Zhuangzi

  Dream, Stupid, Believe

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• Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

  Bob Goff

  Calling The Shots, Absence, Shots

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• When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I’m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.

  Erwin McManus

  Inspiration, Heart, Mean

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• The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.

  William Booth

  Party, Self, Careers

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.233

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• Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Pain, Office

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• One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."

  David Lloyd George

  Justice, Waiting, Political

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• These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.

  A. E. Housman

  Fall, August, Heaven

  1922 Last Poems, no.37,'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'.

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• I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

  Robert Adams

  Self, Giving, Ego

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• You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It's what you want. It's what you are! I've never gotten home from Katz's with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is what's bad and good about food. It's the sacred and the profane.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Home, Past

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• The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones that you do not love. There are unpleasant angles to nearly every important job to be done in this world, but there must be an over all love for doing each, else precious time and effort are uselessly wasted. I shall never forget noting a sign above a construction job that read: "Builder of Difficult Foundations." That man must have loved that calling, else he would not have made a point of advertising the fact!

  George Matthew Adams

  Love, Jobs, Mean

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• The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to reclaim our own inner voices!

  Margaret Starbird

  Swans, Voice, Roots

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• The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time.

  Sarada Devi

  Night, Mind, Conjunctions

  "Women Saints Of East And West: Sri Sarada Devi (The Holy Mother) Birth Centenary Memorial", RamaKrishna Vedanta Centre, (p. 118), 1955.

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• There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

  David Gray

  Life, Stars, Rain

  Song: Everytime, Album: Sell, Sell, Sell, 1996

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• I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

  Frank Lampard

  Soccer, Football, Inspirational Love

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as the source of life willing me to live fully, the source of love calling me to love wastefully and to borrow a phrase from the theologian, Paul Tillich, as the Ground of being, calling me to be all that I can be.

  John Shelby Spong

  Love, Thinking, Mindfulness

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• The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

  John Conyers

  Party, Dubai, Tasks

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• What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Differences, People

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• The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Two, Tragedy

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.78, Indiana University Press

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• Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Kindness, Relax, Prejudice

  Albert Schweitzer (1960). “My Childhood and Youth”

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• The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Girl, Phones, Differences

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