#calling

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#books #calling #i #novels

I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#christ #dances #heart #i #i see

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody. ↗

— Mojo Nixon

#being #calling #defeat #fear #fear god

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day. ↗

— Barack Obama

#calling #change #day #delivering #doing

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. ↗

— Walter Pater

#bury #calling #experience #external #external objects

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#calling #i #librarian #lost #thinks

John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's 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 Somerville

#better #called #calling #christ #dignity

While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#before #calling #choice #enter #first

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

— Channing Tatum

#i #lawyer #lot #me #myself

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#faith #our #part #reality #response