Top 1200 Higher Calling Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

When I was on the playground, people were calling me Jackie Chan.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the Self and the Other. Plato clearly regards any actual physical contact as corrupt and ignoble because he thinks the true goal of Eros is beauty. Is there no beauty in sex? Not according to Plato. He is after `more sublime pursuits.' But if you ask me, I think Plato's problem, like those of many others, was that he never got splendidly laid.

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

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

I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'

I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released.

I once stumped Jimmy Buffett by calling him a saint.

I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.

Recognize your highest calling as early as possible in life.

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

We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.

Capitalism is the best way of organizing economic activity for a lot of reasons. It unlocks a higher fraction of human potential, it balances supply and demand, it's more consistent with higher levels of freedom. But the way we're pursuing it now, focuses on such short-term horizons, that a lot of businesses and investors are tempted to look at investments in terms of what's gonna happen in the next 90 days, what's gonna happen in one year. But the old phrase, "Good things take time," is true of successful businesses as well.

I am not calling 'Aravindha' a wise movie because it's a blockbuster.

The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far away. Right now we are here and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

I think calling me 'full-figured' is just rude.

God grant that each of us here today may so live that all among us, and with us, may see, not us, but that which is divine and comes from God. With that vision of what those who have lost their way may become, my prayer is that they may receive strength and resolution to climb higher and higher and upward and onward to that great goal of eternal life and also that I may do my part in seeking to show by example, as well as by precept, that which will be the best of which I am capable of doing.

The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000 meters because of colder temperatures there. But with recent warming trends, those mosquitoes have now been reported at 1,240 meters in Costa Rica and at 2,200 meters in Columbia. Malaria-bearing mosquitoes, too, have moved to higher elevations in central Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America, triggering new outbreaks of the disease.

First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.

Too many people write books as a calling card.

Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?

My desperation to be on the stage and perform was like a vocation, a religious calling.

Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.

It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

This schtick of calling Republicans racist when they do, well, anything is not new.

Endorsed by Bob Jones, despite calling Mormonism a "cult".

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.

The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead—the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks. This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines?

Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways.

I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.

I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me.

God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live, to love and enjoy the challenge. God's formulas are roadmaps to freedom and peace. God is saying to us: "The only way to live is to be free. So save your heart for love and save your love for persons. Don't ever let any 'thing' own you. Don't let money or fame or power or the pursuit of pleasure put a ring in your nose and lead you around. Love persons and use things." And of course, this is the only way to live, to be free.

I don't actually like calling myself a rapper. I'm more a performer.

I think we need to teach children the importance of others, and that they cannot grow in this world without taking in others. The more worlds they take in, these unique worlds, the more they can become. We need to teach them to trust others again, because we're all frightened to death of each other. We're building higher and higher walls, stronger and stronger locks. Tear down the walls! Every day I see how we're distrusting and it hurts.

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance.

People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

I am not a pundit or a psephologist and thus not in the business of calling elections.

Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

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

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.

Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful.

Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one’s life.

I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.

We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.