#call

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#barack obama #been #born #carter #could

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#cause #check #english #id #immigration

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#egg #golden #landed #motown #mountain

I call him free who is led solely by reason. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#free #him #i #led #reason

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#i love #ideas #jokes #love #short

Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen me.” We are not our own; we have been bought with a price. We have no rights, only responsibilities. Following Christ is not our initiative, merely our response, in obedience. Nothing works better to debunk the pretensions of choice than a conviction of calling. Once we have been called, we literally “have no choice. ↗

— Os Guinness

#life

Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#excellence #humanity #knowledge #life #virtue

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#basically #finished #four #live #material

Life is mysterious as well as vulgar. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#efimero #ephemeral #life #llamadas-telefonicas #meaning

We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world. ↗

— Os Guinness

#motivation #purpose #life