Calling Quotes - Page 22

• A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.

  Jay Leno

  Dad, Father, Iraq

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• A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person.

  Michael Meade

  Quality, Genius, Persons

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• To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Beautiful, Greatest Fear, Novelists

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• Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done.

  Joseph Conrad

  Children, Taken, Justice

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.269, e-artnow

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• and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love

  David Whyte

  Faith, Faces, Waking

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• Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Agriculture, People, Earth

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• My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Past, Giving

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• The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

  Eric Sevareid

  Jobs, People, Littles

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• Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

  Sanford Meisner

  Religious, Thinking, Inspire

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• You can't fulfill your calling in your comfort zone!

  Steven Furtick

  Comfort, Comfort Zone, Zone

  Twitter post from Feb 08, 2017

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• Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

  Billy Graham

  Eye, Faithfulness

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.330, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Rights, Self

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

  Frederick Buechner

  Joy, Needs, World

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• To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.

  Cleve Jones

  Gay, People, Beverly Hills

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• There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don’t know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don’t delay obedience.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Struggle, Issues, Delay

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• The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

  Joseph Conrad

  Artist, Voice, Silence

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Names, Darkness, Strange

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jan 06, 2014

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• Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us. Are you pursuing a shadow career?

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Careers, Risk

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• When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  People, Thousand, Higher

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• I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from poets and philosophers, from educators and ecologists, from postal clerks and miners and traffic cops and nurses and waiters and musicians and cooks and cleaners and from...Regular People Everywhere. That is to say, from YOU.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

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• A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Father, Eternity, Importance

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• Christians are meant to have the same vocation as their King, that of cross-bearers. It is this conscience of a high calling and of partnership with Jesus which brings gladness in tribulations, which makes Christians enter prisons for their faith with the joy of a bridegroom entering the bridal room.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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• Innovation is the calling card of the future.

  Anna Eshoo

  Innovation, Cards

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• Money or no money, acting is my calling.

  Claire Danes

  Acting, No Money

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

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• There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

  Bill Bright

  Men, Privilege, Helping

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