Calling Quotes - Page 25

• It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

  Elihu Root

  Exercise, Community, Association

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• Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend church, made a profession of faith at age twelve, were baptized, come from a Christian family, vote Republican, or live in America. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament warned Israel that they were not safe just because they lived in the land of Israel, so we are not safe just because we wear the label 'Christian' or because some people persist in calling us a 'Christian nation.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Land, America

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.53, David C Cook

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• If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?  Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love?  If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?

  Francis Chan

  Earth, His Love, Pushing

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.63, David C Cook

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• Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action.  Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday?  Or to go on your last vacation?  Or exercise this morning?  Probably not, but you still did it.  The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving  God.

  Francis Chan

  Morning, Mean, Exercise

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.169, David C Cook

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• The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, People, Giving

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 13, 2011.

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• My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

  Steve Vai

  Spiritual, Balance, Today

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

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• It's America calling the shots in everything

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  America, Calling The Shots, Shots

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• A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward.

  Shaunti Feldhahn

  Biblical, Rewards, Choose Wisely

  FaceBook post by Shaunti Feldhahn from Apr 30, 2017

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• We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. If we knew why the Lord sent us this or that trial, it would thereby cease to be a trial either of faith or of patience.

  Alfred Edersheim

  Simple, Doe, Would Be

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• William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

  Leland Ryken

  Men, Riches, Ends

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.115, Harper Collins

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• It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

  Duffy

  Names, People, Decision

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• I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's
  a high calling and it's a great responsibility.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Wise, Moving, Responsibility

  "EXCLUSIVE: Iyanla Vanzant Dishes on Fix My Life, Growth, and Her Mission for Viewers". Interview with Regina R. Robertson, www.essence.com. September 14, 2012.

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• Calling is for #‎ Men - Texting is for #‎ Teenagers .

  Patti Stanger

  Teenager, Men, Texting

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• The beautiful thing about calling out to your Lord is that you don't always have to put your feelings into words

  Bilal Philips

  Beautiful, Feelings, Lord

  FaceBook post by Dr. Bilal Philips from Jan 23, 2015

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• Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

  Robert Breault

  Mother, Years, Names

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• The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

  H. G. Wells

  Military, War, Men

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14923, Delphi Classics

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• When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Hurt, Pain, Fire

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• Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Soul, Calendars, Extraordinary

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• An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.

  Wallace Stevens

  Religious, Religion, Church

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

  William Blake

  Cities, Names, Rivers

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.204, Delphi Classics

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• You know what's funny to me? You know what's really funny to me? The fact that you've been calling Lita the walking kiss of death, but tonight.. the walking KOD beat the walking STD.

  Chris Jericho

  Kissing, Wwe, Tonight

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• A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

  Ann Coulter

  Light, Names, Ideas

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• I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

  Peter De Vries

  Mother, Father, Kitchen

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Sunday, Grace

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• Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Spring, Rain, Fall

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