Inviting Quotes

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

W. H. Auden

Inspirational, Dance, Stars

W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.106, DEBOLS!LLO

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Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

W. H. Auden

Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.

Victoria Osteen

God, Christian, Religious

FaceBook post by Victoria Osteen from Dec 10, 2012

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Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?

Louie Giglio

Family, Christian, Religious

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If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing.

Katharine Drexel

Love, God, Christian

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For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to “invite Jesus into your life.” Jesus doesn’t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn’t boring or purposeless or static. It’s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.

Russell D. Moore

Life, Christian, Religious

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To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

W. A. Criswell

Love, Life, God

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He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.

Richard J. Foster

Home, Heart, Arms

Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

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Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

Carl Reiner

People, Laughing, May

Carl Reiner (2014). “My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir”, p.9, St. Martin's Press

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I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Civilization, Dumb, Aliens

"Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, kuow.org. March 6, 2014.

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I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

Lucy Lawless

Nice, World, Littles

"Saturday interview: Lucy Lawless - Xena the Ecowarrior". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.

Philip Yancey

Prayer, Father, Doe

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Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.

Gwen Stefani

Funny, Memories, Frightening

Song: Don't Speak

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To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

John Calvin

Prayer, Treasure, Sovereign

John Calvin (2012). “Of Prayer (Annotated Edition)”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

C. S. Lewis

Men, Scotch, Forever

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.

Pope Benedict XVI

Heart, Example, Certainty

Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “Holy Days: Meditations on the Feasts, Fasts, and Other Solemnities of the Church”, p.35, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.

Roger Delano Hinkins

Dream, Hurt, Believe

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If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

Joyce Maynard

Girl, Writing, Men

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You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

Guglielmo Marconi

Country, Opportunity, People

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To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the freedom to be unmarked that the men sitting next to us had. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

Deborah Tannen

Morning, Character, Men

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I admit there’s an element of brutality in all my work - it’s part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I’m trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people’s pain and humiliation.

Todd Solondz

Pain, People, Trying

Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.

Hugh Nibley

Challenges, Rivals, Safe

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In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It is more and more important to make the cities inviting, so we can meet our fellow citizens face to face and experience directly through our senses. Public life in good quality public spaces is an important part of a democratic life and a full life.

Jan Gehl

Home, Cities, Shopping

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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 or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only we could see.

Wayne Teasdale

God, Wisdom, Caring

Wayne Teasdale (2010). “The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions”, p.3, New World Library

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