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 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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• 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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• 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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• He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

  John Boyne

  Fighting, Animal, Mind

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• I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Order, Practice

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• Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

  Joseph Conrad

  Mean, Thinking, Air

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.15, Xist Publishing

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• Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Intellectual

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.163, Bantam

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• If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Air, Quotation Marks, Attention

  WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”

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• I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Believe, Learning

  "The Routledge Dance Studies Reader". Book by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, p. 96, 1998.

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• Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Work, Mean, Giving

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.169, Hamilton Books

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• I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

  Alanis Morissette

  Athlete, Thinking, Views

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• Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Mean

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• Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.

  Julie Burchill

  Beautiful, Heart, Weekend

  "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk - review" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Wall, Memories, Yield

  Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Algernon Blackwood: Premium 11 Novels Collection (Jimbo, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Human Chord, The Centaur, The Promise of Air, The Garden of Survival, The Bright Messenger and more)”, p.718, e-artnow

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