Calling Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• Now, some of you may be shy by nature, perhaps feeling yourselves inadequate to respond affirmatively to a calling. Remember that this work is not yours and mine alone. It is the Lord's work, and when we are on the Lord's errand, brethren, we are entitled to the Lord's help. Remember that the Lord will shape the back to bear the burden placed upon it.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Feelings, Bears, Shy

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• As we follow that Man of Galilee-even the Lord Jesus Christ-our personal influence will be felt for good wherever we are, whatever our callings.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Men, Influence

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• Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims on the regular doesn't mean we have to, too. French commentators are already calling for DSK to jump back into the country's presidential race and ride a wave of sympathy into office. Really, the stakes are greater than even that political prize. If we accept the narrative that only perfect women are raped, we risk sacrificing justice not only for this woman, but for victims of sexual assault everywhere. After all, nobody's perfect.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  Country, Mean, Sacrifice

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• I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat?

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Sex, Mean, People

  "Did A&E do the right thing by suspending 'Duck Dynasty' star?". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. December 19, 2013.

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• The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

  Michael Dolan

  Nature, Ocean, Tree

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• The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Men, Offering

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1986). “Bonhoeffer for a New Generation”

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• There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.

  John B. Watson

  Men, Psychology, Training

  John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.79, Routledge

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• The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

  Timothy Keller

  Looks, Way, Accidents

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.249, Penguin

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• Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

  Zell Miller

  Marine, America, Leader

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Art, Fall, Swimming

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.210, Univ of California Press

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• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.

  Richard Baxter

  Thinking, Doors, Feet

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.423

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• As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.

  Chris Van Hollen

  War, Tools, Want

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• Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

  David Gergen

  People

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• I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

  Pat Morita

  Actors, Able, Karate

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

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• Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

  Ken Blanchard

  Purpose, Persons

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.188, David C Cook

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• The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.

  Anne Michaels

  Rain, Past, Names

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black

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• Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at the end of that trial or affliction that individual is nearer to God, nearer in regard to the increase of faith, wisdom, knowledge and power, and hence is more confident in calling upon the Lord for those things he desires.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Men, Knowledge And Power, Faithful

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• Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
  Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
  Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
  I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.

  Stephen Foster

  Heart, Gay, Land

  Stephen Collins Foster (2010). “Stephen Foster & Co: Lyrics of America's First Great Popular Songs”

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• The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.

  Giuliano Amato

  Constitution, Good Things, Referendums

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• Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Stupid, People

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• My account is paid in full. So, why are you calling me?

  Jon Jones

  Accounts, Paid In Full, Paid

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• Are you living just a little and calling that life?

  Annie Dillard

  Simple, Littles, Simple Life

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• Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a hot head, press 3

  Randy Glasbergen

  Funny, Hot, Calm

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• 'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or we wouldn't be here. If the rainbow is in the clouds, then in the worst of time, there is the possibility of seeing hope... We can say 'I can be a rainbow in the cloud for someone yet to be.' That may be our calling.

  Maya Angelou

  Wise, Clouds, Color

  Harrisburg Forum, November 30, 2001.

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