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• I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers, accept all invitations and eat everything you're offered.

  Rita Gelman

  People, Worry, Advice

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• Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

  Carolyn Wells

  Flattery

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• Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time of struggle with defilement, punish your thoughts with lack of nourishment, so that you will think not of defilements, but of hunger, and reject the invitation to go visiting.

  Nilus of Sinai

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Mel Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination.

  Jan Phillips

  Spiritual, Creativity, Imagination

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• A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?

  Judith Martin

  Thinking, People, Love And Marriage

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Prayer, Facts, Praying

  Charles Sanders Peirce “Scientific meta-physics”

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• [On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

  Moms Mabley

  Mom, Four, Honey

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• If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

  Charles Bent

  Suffering, Promotion, Christ

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• An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one of the better reasons is the impending arrival of a little stranger. ... any lady in this interesting condition should have the grace to refuse. We know that symbols of fertility are appropriate to the marriage ceremony, but they needn't be quite so obviously borne in on the congregation.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Should Have, Ideas, Interesting

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• Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

  Mark Nepo

  Meditation, Tradition, Form

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

  Graham Cooke

  Who God Is, Encounters, Problem

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• You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Song, Coffee, Believe

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.39, Penguin

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• Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

  Dorothy Thompson

  War, Justice, Diversity

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• A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say 'God have mercy on you' when one sneezes.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Sick, Funeral, Islam

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• To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, Come to me and rest. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, Go, labor on, as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, Come to me and rest. Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, Come, come, come.

  Hudson Taylor

  Jesus, Mistake, Sick

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• Failure is not a destination; it’s an invitation to unforeseen VICTORIES.

  Les Brown

  Victory, Destination, Unforeseen

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• The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Artist, Wonderful, Charitable

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• EITC is an invitation to fraud.

  Newt Gingrich

  Fraud, Taxes, Tax Reform

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• Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Blessing, Lenses, Spirituality

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• A complete transformation seemed to have place in my life overnight. It was quite staggering, and thenceforward visitors and invitations continued to pour in daily until they became a source of grievance to our landlady, who was obliged to engage an extra servant to respond to the battering of powdered footmen on her humble and somewhat flimsy door.

  Lillie Langtry

  Humble, Doors, Visitors

  Lillie Langtry (2000). “The Days I Knew”, p.37, Panoply Publications

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• The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

  Bill Drayton

  Skills, Creative, Flying

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• Are you still thirsting? Christ gives the invitation not only to others but to you. He is the fountainhead. He has died and is risen. He offers the only way to eternal life, asking only that you admit your need, raise the empty hands of faith, and accept His gift. What is eternal life? It is meaning in life now as well as living one‚s life forever. Drink deep. Jesus offers a brimming cup.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Hands, Giving

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• Accept all invitations to do a new thing. Dare not limit yourself. Move toward your wildest #‎ dream , take the labels off your mind, and step boldly into your greatness.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Dream, Moving, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 21, 2016

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• As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

  Victoria Moran

  Mushrooms, Kitchen, Tomatoes

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• True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

  John Shelby Spong

  Journey, Religion, Doe

  "Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions". Weekly mailing, September 5, 2007.

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