Inviting Quotes

• Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
  Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.106, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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• Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.

  Victoria Osteen

  God, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Victoria Osteen from Dec 10, 2012

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• Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?

  Louie Giglio

  Family, Christian, Religious

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• If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing.

  Katharine Drexel

  Love, God, Christian

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• For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to “invite Jesus into your life.” Jesus doesn’t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn’t boring or purposeless or static. It’s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.

  Russell D. Moore

  Life, Christian, Religious

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• To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

  W. A. Criswell

  Love, Life, God

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• He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.

  Richard J. Foster

  Home, Heart, Arms

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

  Carl Reiner

  People, Laughing, May

  Carl Reiner (2014). “My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir”, p.9, St. Martin's Press

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• I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Civilization, Dumb, Aliens

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, kuow.org. March 6, 2014.

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• I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

  Lucy Lawless

  Nice, World, Littles

  "Saturday interview: Lucy Lawless - Xena the Ecowarrior". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Father, Doe

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• Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.

  Gwen Stefani

  Funny, Memories, Frightening

  Song: Don't Speak

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• The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in to do your art, you're actually making yourself vulnerable. You yourself are not God's gift to truth. You have to hazard yourself in their world, especially because you're inviting people to do the same. It's all about become visible, becoming incarnate, becoming here and now and yet with our eyes on a future horizon; holding the conversation you were meant to hold.

  David Whyte

  Art, Eye, People

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the benefit now, but when now is the time when that effort must be made, as it always is, that prospect is much less inviting.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Monday, Past, Effort

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.136, Harmony

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• Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

  Gail Sheehy

  Inspirational, Stress, Mean

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• It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

  Walpola Rahula

  Believe, Teaching, Knowing

  Walpola Rahula (2014). “What the Buddha Taught”, p.18, Oneworld Publications

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• Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

  Martha Beck

  Ruins, Conspiracy, Weary

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• When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Creating, Integration

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• Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous

  Andy Stanley

  Self, Grace, Threatening

  Twitter post from May 07, 2014

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• I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries. I cannot conceive how women's colleges, inviting and encouraging women to enter professions can be justly founded or maintained denying such a principle.

  Harriet Brooks

  Sex, Science, College

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• We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of God. Significant is Saint Benedict's reminder to the Abbot of a monastery, inviting him to consult even the youngest members of the community: "By the Lord's inspiration, it is often a younger person who knows what is best".

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, People

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• For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. [stanza 22]You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?[stanza 36]

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Song, Laughter

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• And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

  Thomas Menino

  Birthday, Epic, Boston

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