Calling Quotes - Page 18

• A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

  David Jeremiah

  Life, Heart, Firsts

  80 Copy quote

• Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes.

  Graham Goode

  Horse, Home, Judging

  7 Copy quote

• Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

  Paula Vogel

  Theatre, Process, Playwriting

  10 Copy quote

• Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.

  William Matthews

  Men, Dwarves, Excellence

  9 Copy quote

• We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Destiny, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

  John Milton

  Memories, Men, Names

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.204-8.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

  Jon Lester

  Space, Internet, Free Speech

  8 Copy quote

• We rest here while we can, but we hear the ocean calling in our dreams,
  And we know by the morning, the wind will fill our sails to test the seams,
  The calm is on the water and part of us would linger by the shore,
  For ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

  Tom Kimmel

  Dream, Morning, Ocean

  7 Copy quote

• So what do they do? They start writing articles in the New York Daily News. Boy, that's a paper that loves to write crap on people, isn't it? Wanna talk about a paper that supports fascism! Man, I've seen more doctors hatcheted in there. The butchery they did on Emmanuel Revici, the butchery they did on Lawrence Burton, calling him nothing more -- what was the quote the guy said?. . . "Burton is nothing more than a horse doctor." Denigrating him, tearing down his character.

  Gary Null

  Horse, New York, Cancer

  9 Copy quote

• No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.

  David Spangler

  Courage, Powerful, Healing

  17 Copy quote

• I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

  Jackson Browne

  Sunday, Nuclear Disarmament, Play

  23 Copy quote

• I have no patience with people who want to tell me what's wrong. I only want to hear from the person who first tells me the solution and then fills me in on the problem. I don't want to hear that your basement is flooded. I want to hear that you've found the number to the cleanup company. Then tell me why you're calling them.

  Earl G. Graves, Sr.

  Leadership, Numbers, People

  11 Copy quote

• Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Jobs, Real

  4 Copy quote

• Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'

  Mother Teresa

  Ideas, Advice, Purpose

  4 Copy quote

• If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

  Jaron Lanier

  Enough, Used, Ifs

  4 Copy quote

• No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.

  David Klinghoffer

  Simple, Inspire, Sinai

  4 Copy quote

• We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

  Os Guinness

  Wise, Strong, Motivation

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

  Os Guinness

  Matter, Becoming, Called By God

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly
  concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and
  keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek
  that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to the Devil Dinosaur #4 double-splash, which I turned around and showed Eisner - who took a moment, and said something uncharacteristic: “Okay, I might be wrong.

  Glen David Gold

  Devil, Stories, Dinosaurs

  4 Copy quote

• A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his responsibilities to his family and to his children, do me a favor STOP calling yourself a man..at least have the decency to admit that you're a boy. You don't know what manhood is.

  Stephen A. Smith

  Children, Responsibility, Boys

  44 Copy quote

• To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.

  Justine Musk

  Lying, Self, Cracks

  6 Copy quote

• The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That other thing you were calling blue is some other colour, it’s not blue. This, this is blue. It’s a blue that comes down from the sky into the water so that when you look in the sea you think sky and when you look at the sky you think sea.

  Niall Williams

  Thinking, Blue, Sea

  5 Copy quote

• It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.

  Daniel Taylor

  Christian, Blessing, Church

  Daniel Taylor (1986). “The myth of certainty: the reflective Christian and the risk of commitment”, W Pub Group

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.

  Abigail Washburn

  Girl, Daughter, Heart

  5 Copy quote

• Calling has this weight that somehow we think that your calling is fixed. That your calling is this line that you’ve finally found and now you're on that track and that’s what you’re gonna do forever and maybe that's the case. But I feel like calling has much more to to do with the moment that you’re in.

  Jon Foreman

  Thinking, Track, Forever

  19 Copy quote