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The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is characteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of "good" is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation.

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

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.

The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day expressing gratitude. It says to God that you are aware and appreciative of grace. It says to life that you are acknowledging its awesome presence in you. It says to yourself that you are worth the time it takes to be healed. Time spent in silence, contemplation and gratitude is time spent in devotion to a higher calling and a more loving state of being.

The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world

The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

The Lord wants us to have a threefold confidence. First, we are to be confident that He loves us in our weakness. Second, we are to be confident that He esteems our weak love for Him as genuine.Third, we are to be confident that He still entrusts us with the calling that He originally gave us.

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

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 missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.

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

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.

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

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 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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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'?

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'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 scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

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

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

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 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.