Calling Quotes

There was a period where our child's birth was getting really close, and we still had nothing. We were dangerously close to calling him Untitled Baby Project.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.

The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.

It's great, but there is one problem. She doesn't sleep. At night she seems to turn into a vampire. She wakes up every night five or 10 times, asking for things, singing, calling out.

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.

I'm not calling for a boycott on voting. But I think it should be very clear that just voting is not going to solve our problems.

When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.

When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

Your response to opportunities, adversities and calling, determine the type of leader you become.

Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.

What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.

There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.

Always answer the phone. You never know if it's a hit calling.

Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.

Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for the family. Calling for Sundays to be a holiday.

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

Look to yourself for the answer - stop calling your girlfriends and stop calling your mom - you know if it's working or not, you either feel like a goddess or you don't

I think as Christians, we all have the same calling, and that calling is to love God with all our heart, mind, and soul and love others as ourselves and to glorify God in everything that we do.

This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration they possess.

When you ignore what people are saying on a daily basis, calling for the annihilation of your country, you are ignoring them at your own risk.

Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.

I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is.

If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you.

To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.

New rule: Stop calling it Obamacare. It's not like Obama will be the doctor for your next prostate exam. That's just a common fantasy of Republican men.

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to the Republican plan which is 'failure without admission'.

Fashion is about so much more than just a pretty pair of pumps or the perfect hemline. For so many people across the country, it is a calling, it is a career, and it's a way they feed their families.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.