Summons Quotes
50 quotes by 46 authors
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
— Frederick Buechner
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the…
— Agatha Christie
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In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why…
— Rumi
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There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a…
— Charles Spurgeon
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As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter;…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So sing! The song…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
— Elie Wiesel
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This is a beautiful time, this last age, the age of the Holy Spirit... He is crying to every soul that is walled: Open to…
— Jessica Powers
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Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though…
— John F. Kennedy
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Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit…
— Lucretia Mott
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Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it…
— Wayne Teasdale
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When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your…
— David Brooks
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I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not…
— Albert Payson Terhune
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait,…
— Plato
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Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth,…
— Oscar Hijuelos
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Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house…
— Laozi
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Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds…
— Daisaku Ikeda
Who Wrote These Summons Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 50 Summons Quotes, led by these top contributors: