Best 2581 quotes in «calling quotes» category

The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament.

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.

The nights I don't sleep it's because there's a higher calling telling me to stand guard.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.

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.

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.

There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don’t know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don’t delay obedience.

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

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.

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

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'.

There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.

There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?

There's a lot of anger on our side. We've been lied about, we have been lied to, we've been mischaracterized, Hillary calling people deplorables and this kind of thing.

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

There's certain things that we do work with Russia on and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief; it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

The smoking gun is that we're interviewing somebody who is involved in a cybercrime and not calling him a criminal.

The Spanish press started calling me ‘El Nino' when I was very small. Now, I have grown a little. The problem is, when I'm 30 years old, we'll have to come up with another one.

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.

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

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.

The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.

The thing is, I would need the right producer [for dance-music album ], right? "Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

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

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

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

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

This is my calling, this is why I was put on this earth-to make a difference in people's lives.

This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. his whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.