"Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be."

--

Source : Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

Os Guinness

#Becoming Quotes #Calling Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services.”
“Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.”
“The way people are responding to [Moonlight movie] is something we never anticipated. We knew it was good but it is so diverse. The way people are reacting shows me that everyone sees themselves in it. That is groundbreaking. Similarly people come up some older people that it is not their story but are just crying in our arms after a screening. They know what it was like to be bullied or struggled with their own identity trying to figure out who they are. It has really caught people's imaginations.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.”

Source : "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.
“I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.”
“What's love got to do with it?”
“Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.”
“The spirit world wants us to know there's more to this life.”

You may also like: