#calling

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#cromwell #military #men

Everybody else is calling this 'Reggie's Team' and that's fine with me. It's just another challenge I have to face, and I look forward to it. ↗

— Reggie Lewis

#calling #challenge #else #everybody #everybody else

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#calling #calling card #card #chef #display

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#bothers #call #calling #doing #like

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#love #men #relationships #love

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. ↗

— Henry Adams

#calling #divinity #effort #every #every man

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#frighten #get #people #success #sudden

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

#calling #gift #god #host #listed

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

#argument #been #calling #cloning #congress

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#believe #calling #career #god-given #god-given talent