Calling famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
-- A. B. Simpson -
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
-- Alan Greenspan -
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
-- Alan Watts -
Destiny is saying yes to the calling we were born with.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.
-- Alden Ehrenreich -
The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!
-- Alice Cary -
By living up to their calling, women will succeed in guaranteeing a proper recognition of the unique value of femininity and its crucial mission in the world.
-- Alice von Hildebrand -
The callings of God never leave you where they find you.
-- Alistair Begg -
The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world
-- Alister E. McGrath -
I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
-- Amy Hempel -
I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.
-- Angela Bassett -
Don't worry about calling for me. Just pop a cork loudly enough and I'll come running.
-- Anistatia R. Miller -
I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.
-- Anita Baker -
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
-- Anna Godbersen -
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
-- Anne Lamott -
I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
-- Annie Lennox -
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in enforcing good behavior on primitive peoples, their association is now counterproductive. Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
-- Asa Gray -
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
-- B. W. Powe -
We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
-- Barbara Brown Taylor -
Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.
-- Barry Lopez -
I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
-- Barry Zito -
The beautiful thing about calling out to your Lord is that you don't always have to put your feelings into words
-- Bilal Philips -
There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.
-- Bill Bright -
Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
-- Bill Budge -
Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.
-- Bill Keller -
Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
-- Billy Graham -
Each person has their own calling on this Earth.
-- Billy Ray Cyrus -
If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
-- Bob Gill -
Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.
-- Bob Goff -
Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore
-- Bob Goff -
To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
-- Boman Irani -
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
-- Brent Weeks -
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
-- Brian Eno -
There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.
-- Brigham Young -
Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.
-- Brother Yun -
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.
-- Calvin Miller -
The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.
-- Carly Fiorina -
Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.
-- Carol Alt -
I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter...
-- Carrie Vaughn -
oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you’ve been given it, I’d as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.
-- Channing Tatum -
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
-- Charles Kuralt -
Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure in a 'leftist' direction by calling for more collective control and even corporative ownership of the economy. Mussolini looked abroad to find that Franklin Roosevelt was merely seeking to emulate Italy's innovations.
-- Charles S. Maier -
Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.
-- Charles Simeon -
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
We are called with a special calling, and we have a special mission to perform.
-- Charles W. Penrose -
As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
-- Chris Bohjalian -
The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...
-- Chris Bohjalian -
I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.
-- Chris Isaak -
If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.
-- Chris Prentiss -
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 -
Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.
-- Christine Keeler -
I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.
-- Christopher Pearse Cranch -
You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
-- Clara Schumann -
Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.
-- Claudia Gray -
To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.
-- Cleve Jones -
Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.
-- Confucius -
Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away.
-- Conor Oberst -
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
-- Cory Doctorow -
Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not Sarah Palin, that's Joe Biden.
-- Craig Ferguson -
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.
-- Craig Groeschel -
Your life is too valuable, your calling too great, & your God too awesome to waste your life on what doesn't matter.
-- Craig Groeschel -
How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.
-- Dale Carnegie -
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
-- David Baltimore -
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.
-- David Brooks -
Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.
-- David Gergen -
No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.
-- David Klinghoffer -
If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.
-- David Livingstone -
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.
-- David Sedaris -
If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.
-- David Sills -
and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love
-- David Whyte -
When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.
-- David Wilkerson -
If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
-- Demetri Martin -
We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
When I tell somebody to do something I'm not going to get a lobbyist calling me the next day to say please don't do that even though it's good for America.
-- Donald Trump -
I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.
-- Dorianne Laux -
If you are looking for your purpose or calling, you will find it in your pain.
-- Drew Brees -
My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything,
-- Earl Lloyd -
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
-- Edd Roush -
It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.
-- Elihu Root -
The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.
-- Ellie Goulding -
Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me
-- Elvis Presley -
For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.
-- Emma Caulfield -
The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'
-- Eric Sevareid -
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.
-- Erin Gruwell -
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
-- Ernest Gellner -
I think calling someone a character is a compliment.
-- Errol Morris
