100+ Calling Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2009). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.302, Hendrickson Publishers

topic: Jesus, Calling, Life Is

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Religion, Calling, Lions

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

source: Calvin Miller (2011). “Letters to a Young Pastor”, p.8, David C Cook

topic: Age, Calling, Treasure

The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.

- Carly Fiorina

source: "Leadership Lessons". Independent Banker Interview, independentbanker.org. March 16, 2015.

topic: Calling

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

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

topic: Girl, Calling, Firsts, Supermodel

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

topic: Hunters, Cabins, Calling, Cabin In The Woods

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Roles, Calling, Lawyer

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

topic: Ideas, Calling, Want

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

source: Charles S. Maier (1987). “In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

topic: Innovation, Calling, Nudge

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

- Charles Simeon

topic: Calling, Holy

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

topic: Time, Cracks, Calling, Crevice

We are called with a special calling, and we have a special mission to perform.

- Charles W. Penrose

topic: Special, Calling, Missions

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

topic: Nba, Phones, Calling, Swedish, Stockholm

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

source: Chris Bohjalian (2010). “Secrets of Eden”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

topic: Calling, Answers, Levels

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

topic: Desire, Calling, Talent

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

topic: Cells, Feel Good, Calling

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

topic: War, Tools, Calling

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

source: "The lady's not a tramp" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.

topic: Calling, Criminals, New Life

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

topic: Men, Calling, Landscape, Landscape Painting

Money or no money, acting is my calling

- Claire Danes

topic: Acting, Calling, No Money

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

topic: Life, Giving, Calling

Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.

- Claudia Gray

topic: Honor, Calling, Weirdo, Visitation

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

topic: Gay, People, Calling

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

- Confucius

topic: Inspiration, Calling, Sacred

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

topic: Different, Band, Calling

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

topic: Crooks, Calling, Want, Promoters

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

topic: East, Calling, Biden, Christine, Emotionally Unstable

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

- Craig Groeschel

source: Craig Groeschel (2010). “The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist”, p.221, Harper Collins

topic: Church, Calling, World

Your life is too valuable, your calling too great, & your God too awesome to waste your life on what doesn't matter.

- Craig Groeschel

topic: Calling, Matter, Waste

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

topic: Preparation, Attention, Calling, Assistance

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

topic: People, Calling, Cloning, Slopes, Slippery

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

topic: Self, People, Calling

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

- David Gergen

topic: People, Calling

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

topic: Simple, Inspire, Calling, Sinai

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

topic: Gratitude, Calling, Sacred, Gratitude To God

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

topic: Calling, Uncomfortable, Okay

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

topic: Perfect, Missionary, Calling, Perfect Timing

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

topic: Faith, Calling, Faces

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Im Sorry, Amputees, Calling

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

topic: Revenge, Forgiving, Calling

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

source: Dillon Burroughs (2011). “Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers”, p.38, Harvest House Publishers

topic: Small Steps, Calling, World

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

topic: America, Lobbyists, Calling

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

topic: Thinking, Trying, Calling

If you are looking for your purpose or calling, you will find it in your pain.

- Drew Brees

topic: Pain, Purpose, Calling

My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything,

- Earl Lloyd

topic: Philosophy, Names, Calling

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

- Edd Roush

topic: Calling, Hitting, Theory

It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

- Elihu Root

topic: Exercise, Community, Calling

The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Light, Calling, Way

My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

- Ellie Goulding

topic: Dark, Soul, Calling

Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

- Elvis Presley

topic: Song, Bags, Calling, Wild And Free

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

topic: Feelings, Calling

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

- Eric Sevareid

topic: Jobs, People, Calling, Quirks

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

topic: Teacher, Believe, Calling, Advocacy, Impassioned

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

- Ernest Gellner

source: Ernest Gellner (1959). “Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology”

topic: Calling, Philosopher, Abandon

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

- Errol Morris

topic: Character, Thinking, Calling, Calling Someone

The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.

- Ethan Zuckerman

topic: Technology, Understanding, Calling, Calling Someone

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

- Evgeny Morozov

topic: Wall, Tools, Calling, Trendy

A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Father, Calling, Eternity

You never know when the devil might come calling.

- Farley Mowat

source: Farley Mowat (2010). “Eastern Passage”, p.120, McClelland & Stewart

topic: Devil, Calling, Might

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

- Frances Farmer

source: Collier's Magazine, May 8, 1937.

topic: Girl, People, Calling, Bad Girl

Recognize your highest calling as early as possible in life.

- Frank McKinney

topic: Calling

Recognize your highest calling as early in life as possible. Proactively and creatively persist, day in and day out. Leave an enduring legacy.

- Frank McKinney

topic: Legacy, Calling, Endure

I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude.

- Franny Billingsley

topic: Rude, Genius, Calling

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

- Frederick Buechner

topic: Joy, Needs, Calling

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Land, Looks, Calling, Deceitful, Climax

I only wear clothes because I can't walk around with nothing on, but they started calling me a fashionista.

- G-Dragon

topic: Clothes, Calling, Because I Can

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

- Garrett Hardin

topic: Rights, Population, Calling, Overloaded, World Population

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

- Geezer Butler

topic: Hair, Band, Calling, Pop Bands

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

- George Horace Lorimer

topic: Asking, Calling, Wealth

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

- George Plimpton

topic: Calling, Way, Get Over

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

- George Santayana

topic: War, Calling, Politics, Debauchery

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

- Giuliano Amato

topic: Calling, Constitution, Good Things, Referendums

Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to the Devil Dinosaur #4 double-splash, which I turned around and showed Eisner - who took a moment, and said something uncharacteristic: â€œOkay, I might be wrong.

- Glen David Gold

topic: Devil, Stories, Calling

Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.

- Graham Cooke

source: FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Jun 03, 2012

topic: Calling, Way, Celebration

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

- Gray Davis

source: "Gray Davis, conciliatory in defeat, accepts the people's verdict". www.cnn.com. October 8, 2003.

topic: California, Division, Calling

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

topic: Book, Calling, Novel, Avoided

My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.

- Gunther Schuller

source: "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

topic: Priorities, Age, Calling

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

- Harold Hamm

topic: Oil, Calling, Irresistible

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

- Helen Oyeyemi

topic: Names, Different, Calling

Your calling is to bless lives. . . . Just the way you smile or the way you offer to help someone can build their faith.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Calling, Way, Helping

Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

topic: Memories, Calling, Might

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Calling, World, Ashamed

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

- Horace Bushnell

source: Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.49

topic: Calling, Praying

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

- I. J. Good

topic: Objectivity, Judgement, Calling

The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.

- Iimani David

topic: Home, People, Calling

Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

- J. I. Packer

source: J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.69, Baker Books

topic: Calling, Glory, Power Of God, Glory Of God

We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

- J. I. Packer

topic: Grace, Calling, His Love, Redeeming

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

- J. Irwin Miller

topic: Humanity, Calling, Humans, Arts And Humanities

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

- Jackson Browne

topic: Birthday, Political, Calling, Political Prisoners

Everybody keeps calling for Excellence excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: "Elitism!" And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. "Standing out" is undemocratic.

- Jacques Barzun

source: "Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning" by Jacques Barzun, ("Schooling No Mystery"), 1991.

topic: Excellence, Calling, Praise, Elitism

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

- James Bryant Conant

source: James Bryant Conant (1942). “Our Fighting Faith: Five Addresses to College Students”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

topic: Excellence, Aristocracy, Calling, Snobbery

Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

- James Callaghan

source: "Chancellor stands by three per cent growth and no devaluation". The Times, (p. 13), July 25, 1967.

topic: Real, Class, Calling

I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.

- James Cameron

topic: Calling, Pieces, Littles

John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybodys calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.

- James Green

topic: Voice, Needs, Calling, John The Baptist, Messiah

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

- Jan Egeland

topic: Party, Calling, Ceasefire, Darfur, Security Council

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

- Jan Struther

source: Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

topic: Admiration And Respect, Calling, World

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

- Jane Pauley

topic: Mistake, Calling, Might

Your on your on with this one babe." "Coward." "Calling me names isn't going to get me in there." -Ranger and Stephanie

- Janet Evanovich

topic: Names, Coward, Calling

Racing is a calling, a passion.

- Janet Guthrie

topic: Passion, Racing, Calling

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

- Janet McTeer

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

topic: People, Age, Calling

When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.

- Jean Houston

topic: Depth, Genius, Calling

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

topic: Calling, Misfits, Abandoned, Virgin Suicides

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

- Jennifer Granholm

topic: People, Calling, Public Service

I am ashamed to say I auditioned three times before I even watched any of the [X-Men] movies. And then after I watched the movies, I was like, "Oh my God, I've been doing it all wrong, why are they calling me back?

- Jennifer Lawrence

topic: Men, Three, Calling, X Men

Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me.

- Jeremiah Burroughs

source: Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.241, Lulu.com

topic: Heart, Calling, World

Our greatest value is to reproduce ourselves in the lives of others. When you leave behind a vibrant Christian who knows his calling and his commission, you can be buried, but you will live on through all those in whom you have been reproduced.

- Jerry Falwell

topic: Christian, Calling, Buried

I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.

- Jillian Michaels

topic: Soul, Calling, Littles

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

- Jim Bakker

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Spiritual, Calling, Television, Talk Shows, Spiritual Gifts

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

- Jim Caviezel

topic: Ideas, Calling, Holiness

Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.

- Joe Frazier

source: "Fire Still Burns Inside Smokin' Joe Frazier" by Vincent M. Mallozzi, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2006.

topic: Cute, Baby, Calling

It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

- John Avlon

topic: Tyrants, Important, Calling

I found my life's calling when you spoke my name.

- John Michael Montgomery

topic: Romantic, Names, Calling

The mountains are calling and I must go.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.190, The Mountaineers Books

topic: Nature, Mountain, Calling, National Parks, Climbing Mountain

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

- John Ratzenberger

topic: People, Calling, Actors

The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is characteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of "good" is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation.

- John Searle

topic: Example, Calling, Speech, Commendation

So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how we believe we have experienced God, doing our best to dispel our human delusions. Let me try to do just that. I experience God as the source of life calling me to live fully and thus to respect life in every form as embodying the holy.

- John Shelby Spong

topic: Believe, Trying, Calling, Respect Life

I used the N-word instead of calling him Trevor. I used it just not thinking... I told Trev this is an old wound with me. I grew up with it. I am sorry as anybody that it stuck with me.

- John Vanbiesbrouck

topic: Sorry, Thinking, Calling, Old Wounds

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

- Johnny Cash

topic: Leader, Calling, Politics

If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.

- Johnny Ramone

topic: Regret, Dying, Calling

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

- Jon Lester

topic: Space, Calling, Internet, Space Shuttle

Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.

- Joseph Girzone

source: Joseph Girzone (1995). “Joshua”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

topic: Calling, Individual

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

- Joseph Glanvill

topic: Calling, World, Truth Is

Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

- Joseph Hall

topic: Order, Calling, Firsts

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

- Joseph Hall

topic: Hate, Calling, Holiness, Eminence

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

- Joseph Jarman

source: Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

topic: Art, Calling, Performances, Performance Art

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

- Joshua Lederberg

topic: Religious, Calling, Saws

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

- Joyce Maynard

topic: Home, Calling, Persons

C'mon, Amy, cinnamon rolls are calling us." Dan put a hand to his ear. "Do you hear? 'Amy? Dan?'" he squeaked. "'Come and get my sugary, sticky goodness!

- Judy Blundell

topic: Hands, Cinnamon, Calling

For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.

- Julie Gold

source: Interview with Angela Page, www.wjffradio.org. June 24, 2000.

topic: Trying, Calling, Trying Hard

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

- K.P. Yohannan

topic: Church, Calling, Tradition, Church Of Christ

I've found my true calling in life, and I'm living life on my terms.

- Kai Greene

topic: Live Life, Calling, Found, Calling In Life

The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.

- Kathleen Madigan

topic: People, Scare, Calling, Unsolved Mysteries

Have we forgotten our calling? (2 Cor. 5:19-20) Remember that your first and foremost calling is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that gospel is a twofold message: His death for our sins and His resurrection for our lives.

- Kay Arthur

source: FaceBook post by Kay Arthur from Nov 03, 2014

topic: Jesus, Calling, Messages

Derek? Derek!-Chole Chole! what are you doing out here? i said we will check it out later. key word WE-Derek oh, yeah I decided to come out on my own. thats why i was calling your name repeatively- Chole

- Kelley Armstrong

topic: Keys, Names, Calling

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

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Purpose, Calling, Persons

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

- Kit Williams

topic: Calling, Distraction, Blindness, Tenacious

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

- Kohta Hirano

topic: Calling, Fool, Left And Right

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

- Kris Carr

source: "The Myth of Finding Your Purpose" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2013.

topic: Self Worth, Calling, Crafts, Treat Yourself

Listen can you hear the distance calling Far away but will be with you soon

- Kylie Minogue

topic: Song, Distance, Calling

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

- L. Bruce Archer

topic: Design, Calling, Done

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

- La Monte Young

topic: Calling

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.

- Lauren DeStefano

topic: Dark, Calling, Return, Dark Places

There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief; it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

- LeRoy Neiman

topic: Spiritual, Art, Calling, Great Moments, Doing Your Own Thing

The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.

- Lesslie Newbigin

topic: Soul, Missionary, Calling, Perdition

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

- Levon Helm

topic: Band, Calling, Records

The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

- Lisa See

topic: Calling

You can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling.

- Lissa Rankin

source: Lissa Rankin (2015). “The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor's Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life's Purpose”, p.117, Rodale

topic: Jobs, Calling, Quitting, Quitting Your Job

Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.

- Lorraine Hansberry

topic: Mean, Calling, Littles

Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.

- Luci Shaw

topic: Calling, Mystery, States

Entrepreneurship is not a job, nor even a calling - but a hunger.

- Luke Johnson

topic: Jobs, Calling, Hunger

God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

- Lysa TerKeurst