Quotes About Calling

#1. Yet some of the most faithful, effective Christians I know are those who are living out their quiet calling to the few in their home, to their fledging church, or to the homeless under a bridge in their city. Nothing is meager or insignificant about that.

Priscilla Shirer

#2. The Fates teleported me to the ascended angels staff lounge. It wasn't called that, naturally. We weren't staff. This wasn't a job. It was a calling. An honor. A noble mission. Bullshit.

Kelley Armstrong

#3. True initiation is a response to an inner calling; it requires that you face personal challenges heroically and experience a genuine rebirth into a new way of being.

Alberto Villoldo

#4. You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.

Zach Galligan

#5. Your calling is God trust to you

Sunday Adelaja

#6. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. Calling is more than purely cultural, but it is also more than purely personal. Discover the meaning of calling and you discover the heart of the gospel itself.

Os Guinness

#8. Frederic had imagined this moment - him running to Ella with open arms, calling her name - but being as winded as he was, doubled over with his hands on his knees, all he could do was nod in her general direction.

Christopher Healy

#9. Law enforcement is a calling. It's about being willing to serve the public as a protector of the innocent and enforcer of the law. The law represents the codified moral beliefs of the people.

Dan Arnold

#10. Are you calling me stupid?"says Emby.
"I think I just did."
Hayden laughs. "Hey, the Mouth Breather's right-unwinding does help people. If it wasn't for unwinding, there would be bald guys again-and wouldn't that be horrible?

Neal Shusterman

#11. I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

David LaChapelle

#12. Evan James was done up in a white suit, looking very handsome and calling "Dada, Dada" during the ceremony

Bruce Springsteen

#13. You are responsible for your calling and you must give account

Sunday Adelaja

#14. I won't just have a job; I'll have a calling. I'll challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down, I'll get back up. I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I'll strive to be the grittiest.

Angela Duckworth

#15. Sometimes no matter how far off course your ship has sailed in the seas of life ...
it becomes obvious that you must turn around and sail in the right direction. Sometimes it will be a higher calling and mandatory to save your life.

Timothy Pina

#16. Writing is not a choice for me, it is a calling.

Brenda B. Taylor

#17. William Perkins said, The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself ... but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

Leland Ryken

#18. Regardless of the number of challenging obstacles that might stand in the way, I wasn't afraid to risk everything for what I knew to be my calling.

Kat Von D.

#19. I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

Barbara Stanwyck

#20. He was looking at both of us, the gun held easily in his big hands. "What's with the sunglasses, bitch?"
I let the name calling go. They had all the guns. "They look cool," I said
He laughed then, a warm growly sound. A nice laugh if he hadn't been armed.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#21. Our calling is to exalt the name of the Lord above every other name. God has translated us into His Kingdom and revealed to us the way to greatness so that we can glorify Him.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done.

Joseph Conrad

#23. Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.

Faith Sullivan

#24. We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing.

Tina Fey

#25. People in LA seem to have no concept of the time outside of their city. I've been trained for thirty years in the film industry of having whether its agents, lawyers, actors, or whoever calling up all night.

Matthew Vaughn

#26. I think my favorite thing is when people send me Instagram photos of people's yearbooks, and one guy will put "Are you calling me a liar?," and his friend will have "I ain't calling you a truther." And those are people's actual yearbook quotes. That's so amazing.

Drake Bell

#27. Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

Roger Ebert

#28. Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false name.

G. Willow Wilson

#29. A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

Ann Coulter

#30. I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

Medea Benjamin

#31. This is the real secret of life
to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Alan W. Watts

#32. Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

Bruce Bartlett

#33. From the edge of the forest where the mountains begin, a pack of sleeping wolves, huddled together in the cold, were woken. Travelling on the crystal air was a sound to fear in the night - the sound of parents calling out in anguish and loss.
A sound that would even chill the souls of beasts.

Sebastian Gregory

#34. In reality, is being sedentary a choice to run from our calling by not running after it?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#35. The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#36. I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

Morten Tyldum

#37. Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

Michael Shermer

#38. Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.

Jonas Armstrong

#39. We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Walter Scott

#40. There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.

Pope Pius XII

#41. There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

Kate DiCamillo

#42. I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

Berkeley Breathed

#43. Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

Plato

#44. Wind of the night, Questing, swaying, calling, Rustle of dull grasses, Why do you trouble me?

John Gould Fletcher

#45. If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless

Sunday Adelaja

#46. Our vocation and professional work is not a second class activity, something we do just to put food on the table. It is the high calling for which we were originally created. The way we serve a Creator God is by being creative with the talents and gifts He has given us.

Nancy Pearcey

#47. You see, calling things by their proper names is the beginning of wisdom. That's a Chinese proverb and they invented writing. The wisdom, in case you're wondering, is that when you get names right, you narrow the gap between you and the thing.

Zia Haider Rahman

#48. I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.

V.C. Andrews

#49. I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

Uma Thurman

#50. Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.

Sara Blakely

#51. When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now
where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.

Doris Lessing

#52. What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?

Paul Gascoigne

#53. I treat my wife very differently than I treat my chums and my pals. I wouldn't worry about calling them on Valentine's Day, opening the door for them, or making sure they were OK.

Mike Huckabee

#54. I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

Jurnee Smollett

#55. Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

Claes Oldenburg

#56. A silence fell. Frogs in the night were calling, calling, calling.

Jonathan Franzen

#57. There was a point in time, when I put out the Chief Keef diss, where I was so hot that everybody was calling my phone. But I decided to go set up under Wale, but he wasn't really teaching me how to rap.

Shy Glizzy

#58. A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
It seems we all live so close to that line
and so far from satisfaction

Joni Mitchell

#59. You better get over here with my car," Grandad says. "Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it." "Sorry," I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. "Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I'd like to see.

Holly Black

#60. There is no greater Church calling than that of a home teacher. There is no greater Church service rendered to our Father in Heaven's children than the service rendered by a humble, dedicated, committed home teacher.

Ezra Taft Benson

#61. The clatter of Crow calling to Crow - is there anywhere a friendlier, happier sound?

Clem Martini

#62. Here's the hell of it: madness doesn't announce itself. There isn't time to prepare for its coming. It shows up without calling and sits in your kitchen ashing in your plant. You ask how long it plans to stay; it shrugs its shoulders, gets up, and starts digging through the fridge.

Marya Hornbacher

#63. People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.

Sam Altman

#64. You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.

Aaron Rodgers

#65. The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God's name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.

Carolyn Custis James

#66. The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world.

M.J. Stoddard

#67. We have to actually choose a name," Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.

Christine Feehan

#68. 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.

Michelle Obama

#69. American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

Shane Smith

#70. calling colleagues "customers" puts a wedge between IT and the rest of the business.

Richard Hunter

#71. We are our stories - dozens, hundreds, thousands of them - sprayed across our memories, embedded in our identity. Calling them up for others or for ourselves or for God, can enlighten, crush, amuse, trap, or free us, depending on how we pay attention.

Emma Lou Warner Thayne

#72. The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal.

Neal A. Maxwell

#73. In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

Bobby Brown

#74. I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

Ruth Reichl

#75. We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.

Brandon Jenner

#76. All that winter the crannogman stayed on the isle, but when the spring broke he heard the wide world calling and knew the time had come to leave.

George R R Martin

#77. What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

Malcolm Forbes

#78. If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it "proactive intelligence screening" or "high alert detecting", people would be saying "Well, it's about time".

Bill Maher

#79. Hitler was calling upon Almighty God to give him courage and strength to save the German people and right the wrongs of Versailles...and then to settle down and govern the county in the interest of those millions of oppressed "little people" for whom he spoke so eloquently.

Upton Sinclair

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

Henry Rollins

#81. My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the way a bird-watcher's heart leaps when he hears the call of the roseate spoonbill, a fluffy pink wader, calling its lilting coo-coo from the mangroves.

Aimee Bender

#82. Calling 'Instagram' a photo-sharing app is like calling a newspaper a letter-sharing book, or a Mozart grand era symphony a series of notes. 'Instagram' is less about the medium and more about the network.

Kevin Systrom

#83. Are you calling about the ad?"
"Ad?"
"For the gently used Bentley for sale. It has zero miles!"
Well, that explained the backward driving.
Macrieve & Nix

Kresley Cole

#84. 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'.

Mark Twain

#85. We need to be adopted by God through Jesus - that was what happened to me, and that's what changed my life so that now, I can see that my career can be part of a calling.

Cliff Richard

#86. Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.

Jamie Arpin-Ricci

#87. When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William Bagley

#88. In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

Ken Starr

#89. Never stand on one spot, always be doing something in line with your calling

Sunday Adelaja

#90. I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

Daniel Defoe

#91. There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.

Chris Matakas

#92. Calling an animal and
having it come, planting something and having it grow, become essential. It is
proof that I exist.

Benazir Bhutto

#93. Because through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the only heaven I wanted.

Stephenie Meyer

#94. Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

Izumi Shikibu

#95. Tell her I got detention for defending her honour," Alec shouted in the distance.
"Did he really?"
"Well, he got detention, but mostly for calling Akira a close-minded troglodyte," she said.

Cecily White

#96. The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.

Stephen Malkmus

#97. I resign," says Velvel. He takes off his glasses, slips them into his pocket, and stands up. He forgot an appointment. He's late for work. His mother is calling him on the ultrasonic frequency reserved by the government for Jewish mothers in the event of lunch.

Michael Chabon

#98. I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise.

Tom Felton

#99. Do your heart's calling, dear dreamer or be doomed forever in the fire of unfulfilled wishes, a soul disease.

Aporva Kala

#100. This is the deep-space commercial tug Nostromo, registration number one eight zero, two four six, en route to Earth with bulk cargo crude petroleum and appropriate refinery. Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over.

Alan Dean Foster