#calling

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing. But what about your true name? It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called. Ever wonder why? Your true name has the secret power to call you. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#call #calling #evoke #invoke #name

You can not choose your calling. Your calling chooses you. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life-missions #life-purpose #life

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place. ↗

— Mark Galli

#freedom #god #freedom

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#teachers #men

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#healing #metaphysics

The voice of love calls to you, my son. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#caring #duty #love #responsibility #romance

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#back #chilly #crammed #drawer #falls

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#another #calling #cannot #employment #how

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool. ↗

— Levon Helm

#call #calling #came #crackers #fool

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#because #been #calling #comes #each