Now, some of you may be shy by nature, perhaps feeling yourselves inadequate to respond affirmatively to a calling. Remember that this work is not yours and mine alone. It is the Lord's work, and when we are on the Lord's errand, brethren, we are entitled to the Lord's help. Remember that the Lord will shape the back to bear the burden placed upon it.
Your primary calling is to worship. . . to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.
"That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy. " Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us. . . all those things. " But buried alive?! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know the one with all the horror. " "I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?" "Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me. "
It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not. . . , not calling them.
They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?
Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole. " That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers to someone as an "ass. " Unless you're British, calling someone an ass really doesn't work. But those are the rules of television. You can be a dirtbag, but not a scumbag.
Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.
I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies. "
You want to know who's now running the U. S. Army, the U. S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
You can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling.
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
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!
I was djing before I was rapping. I was calling myself Mike Geronimo and spelling it like Mike but he was just like spell it M-i-c. I was like that's ill cuz it stands out.
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude.
No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.
If someone is calling for democracy, he is calling for an end of a dictatorship and if this is the will of the people, this could also mean overthrowing the regime.
Once upon a time' These are the most magical words our world has ever known and the gateway to the greatest stories ever told. They're an immediate calling to anyone who hears them-a calling into a world where everyone is welcome and anything can happen. Mice can become men, maids can become princesses, and they can teach valuable lessons in the process.