Invitations Quotes - Page 17

• Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

  John Ortberg

  Prayer, Today, Problem

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.135, Harper Collins

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• I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

  Paul Schrader

  Art, Writing, Half

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• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  Ward McAllister

  Dinner Guests, House Guests, Sacred

  Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”

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• We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. ... We are all children of a Heavenly Father who has sent us to earth with the invitation to prepare for eternal life. Every choice, every experience, every repentance and reformation prepares us for what is to come.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Father, Choices

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• To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation.
  My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Girl, Daughter, Simple

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• Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

  Paul Brunton

  Serenity, Taste, Silent

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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• I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or the Moon or my glass [telescope].

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Thinking, Moon

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• I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't matter what the film is about, or even whether it's a narrative or figurative film at all, it's an invitation to step into somebody else's shoes. Even if it's the filmmaker's shoes filming a landscape, you go into somebody else's shoes and you look out of their lens, you look out of their eyes and their imagination. That's what going to the pictures is all about.

  Tilda Swinton

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Treasure

  "More Matter" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. 1999.

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• I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually frees us from prejudice, no matter what religion or political persuasion they are. I try to create a river-like discourse. The river is not political, it's not on your side or against you. It's an invitation into the onward flow.

  David Whyte

  Your Side, Rivers, Discipline

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.

  David Whyte

  Art, Listening Ear, Silence

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Ku Klux Klan, Branches

  Margaret Sanger (2004). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.366, Courier Corporation

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• An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended, but attitudes linger. The hardest thing is going to be to try to reverse an attitude, a bunker mentality that equates secrecy with either security or heightened efficiency and that regards transparency as an invitation to mischief and trespass. This default position of operating in the shadows is going to be somewhat appealing to whomever inherits office.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Sea

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation to say, "We want you to be a scholar. We want you to go on doing this. But do it as a bishop!"

  N. T. Wright

  Giving, Challenges, Bishops

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.

  Rosellen Brown

  Men, Self, Insanity

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• Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

  Robert Barron

  Athletic, Way, Heroic

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• Now is the time to become a disciple of Jesus Christ, which means accepting His invitation to 'come, follow me' (Luke 18:22). This is the decision we made in our premortal lives. Now we must make it again here in mortality, every day, in every situation by taking the Savior's name upon us, remembering His atoning sacrifice, and keeping His commandments. This we covenanted to do when we were baptized, and we have the opportunity to renew those covenants each week as we partake of the sacrament.

  Robert D. Hales

  Jesus, Mean, Sacrifice

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• I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Fiction, My Own

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• The Munay-Ki is your invitation to dream an entire new world into being.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, World, New World

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• I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Party, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A commission is an invitation to fall in love.

  Twyla Tharp

  Falling In Love, Fall

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• The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.

  Lynda Barry

  Exercise, Mind, Diaries

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• To me life is simply an invitation to live.

  Sean O'Casey

  Life Is

  E. H. Mikhail, Sean O'Casey, John O'Riordan (1974). “The sting and the twinkle: conversations with Sean O'Casey”

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• I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

  Jeff Landry

  White, House, President

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• The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dog, Lame, Dull

  'Letter to Thomas Hughes'

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