#summon

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

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#another man #area #comes #experience #human

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then. ↗

— John Burroughs

#beaten #his #may #philosophy #summon

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court. ↗

— William Feather

#court #invitation #invokes #more #police

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#borrowed #bother #come #go #i