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• When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"

  Pam W. Vredevelt

  Hurt, Pain, Squares

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• Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

  Paul of the Cross

  Flower, Artist, Sky

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• Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to escape and find something or someone to keep us company. When we can rest in the middle, we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down.

  Pema Chodron

  Loneliness, Heartache, Justice

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

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• There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

  David Byrne

  Years, People, Listening

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• "By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Inspirational, Basketball, Soccer

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• Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Impossible Situations, Omnipotence

  Mark Batterson (2011). “Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems”, p.6, Zondervan

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• Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he’s a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties.

  Ze Frank

  Party, Shoes, Looks

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• The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you hope and a future. God speaks in the past tense about battles you’re currently fighting. And He buries the shame of yesterday in order to resurrect the moment you are in and sustain you in the season He is calling you to embrace.

  Steven Furtick

  Fighting, Past, Reality

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.154, Multnomah

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• The most successful social media experiments-whether spearheaded by one person, a group of individuals, a company, or an institution-invite you in, treat you as a friend, and make you feel at home. Look around, they say, and tell us how we can make things better; get to know us. Get involved and tell us what you think.

  Melinda Blau

  Home, Successful, Thinking

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• The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.

  Pier Giorgio Frassati

  Inspirational, God, Illumination

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• What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.

  Richard P. Bland

  Country, Attention, Silver

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• The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Block, Math, Emotional

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• Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

  Virginia Postrel

  Giving, World, Opaque

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• The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Struggle, Way

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• Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

  Eric Ries

  Zero, Small Numbers, Imagination

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.52, Crown Business

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• Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Life, Happiness, Passion

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• When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own.

  Oscar Romero

  Class, Causes, Sides

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• You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

  Megan Chance

  Running, Feelings, Madness

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• Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

  Billy Tauzin

  Cities, New Orleans, Water

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• What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day... It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Running, Heart

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• Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

  Andrew Solomon

  Real, Identity, Illness

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.

  Marlee Matlin

  Different, Answers

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• Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Rivers, Dangerous, Careless

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Self, Listening

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• Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.

  Li Bai

  Wine, Moon, Hands

  "Drinking Alone in the Midnight" (eighth cent.) (translation by Elling Eide)

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