#calling

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response. ↗

— Roland Allen

#among #because #believe #calling #expect

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#journalist #mistaken #person #their #who

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#cannot #down #him #man #raise

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#hand #heroes #kids #make #movies

For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed. ↗

— Chris Evans

#books #by the time #calling #camped #christmas

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

#bad girl #began #calling #girl #got

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#been #better #books #bring #called

Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter! ↗

— Chris Colfer

#calling #calls #classes #daughter #district

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

— James Bryant Conant

#based #calling #each #elite #excellence

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#calling #father #highest #medicine #mother