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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted. -- Wendell Berry
It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. -- R. Lee Ermey
Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things. -- Raymond Arroyo
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. -- John Stuart Mill
Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands. -- Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it. -- Hari Kunzru
You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher. -- Charles Stanley
There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people. -- Meir Soloveichik
I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky. -- Richard Dreyfuss
It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity. -- Rowan Williams
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them. -- Gene Wilder
I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being. -- John Shelby Spong
The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah. -- David Novak
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us. -- Barbara Mandrell
In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained. -- Anne Graham Lotz
Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said. -- Al Franken
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
By God ye shall be called to account for your doings! -- Elijah Muhammad
We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God. -- Leonardo da Vinci
We have been called by God; we must live life worthy of our calling. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son. -- R. C. Sproul
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord -- Bible
God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name. -- David Platt
We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time... -- Mother Teresa
The great #"? conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God. -- Henri Nouwen
We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God. -- Paul David Tripp
A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub. -- Henry Ward Beecher
When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in. -- Sam Roberts
The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides. -- Diogenes Laertius
Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development? -- Edward Abbey
Let's determine to finish well by helping facilitate a lifelong conversation and sense of community between God and the people He has called us to serve. -- Paul Baloche
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether. -- Max Lucado
Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves. -- Desmond Tutu
Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be. -- Os Guinness
God has not called us to save America; He has called us to save Americans from the coming judgment of God by introducing them to faith in Jesus Christ. -- Robert Jeffress
By God, we shall not stop, God willing, except at the doorsteps of the White House, and to raise the banner of monotheism on their so-called Statue of Liberty. -- Osama bin Laden
At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?" "No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, "Oh, my God! -- Ilona Andrews

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