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Quotes About Summoning

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
~ Brennan Manning
I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Twelve times did the iron register of time beat on the sonorous bell-metal, summoning the ghosts to rise, and walk their nightly round. - In plainer language, it was twelve o'clock...
~ Henry Fielding
Kiedy przywo?ujesz demona, dajesz mu sposobno?? wp?ywania na wydarzenia w twoim ?wiecie. Pomniejsze demony po prostu wyrz?dz? szkody, ale wi?ksze potrafi? by? subtelniejsze. I gro?niejsze.
~ Herbie Brennan
Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.
~ Herman Melville
Look, I don't mind summoning some demon and asking it," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. "That's normal. But building some mechanical contrivance to do your thinking for you, that's … against Nature.
~ Terry Pratchett
It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.
~ Ilona Andrews
The spell towed me along with them, and I was glad to lose myself inside it. All the horrors of the day didn't vanish, but the Summoning made them only one part of the story, and not the most important part.
~ Naomi Novik
Called or not, the gods will come.
~ C.G. Jung
It couldn't be real. People summoned monsters from the arcane realm, but I'd never heard of anyone summoning actual demons. Yet it was right there, living, breathing, real, and every instinct I had howled and clawed at my logic.
~ Ilona Andrews
He did not know that she had seen her own destiny, that she had summoned him with the power of her thought, and that she had already made up her mind to marry without love.
~ Isabel Allende
Not that she's happy with Bob. Iris still hasn't forgiven him for unintentionally massacring most of her congregation, cocking up a very important summoning which might have shaved four years off the critical path to the New Management, and always being late with his timesheets.
~ Charles Stross
Or was it running the world's weirdest Turing-complete variant Dungeons & Dragons campaign using a rule set isomorphic with first-order transdimensional summoning algebra—
~ Charles Stross
God is never absent so He need not be "summoned", nor do we possess the power to summon Him; the thing in need of summoning, and of redemption from ghaflah ("heedlessness") is the subtle spiritual attention of the Sufi to His Grace and His Presence.
~ Charles Upton
Mania is, in effect, liquid confidence..when the tide comes in, it's all good. But when the tide goes out, the mood that cannot and should not be named comes over you and into you. Because to name it would be an act of summoning.
~ Carrie Fisher
WHO CALLS UPON THE HIGH WARLOCK?
~ Cassandra Clare
Thoughts are vibrations sending invitations, summoning things, pulling strings, fixing the stage for you to engage in the play of life.
~ Gordana Biernat
She called on Hecate, on Brighid, on Morrigan and Babd Catha, summoning the strength and power of the goddesses.
~ Nora Roberts
Alluding and attacking, summoning a courage, embodying a gallantry of defiance that hurt to see, it was so noble and so doomed.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Reality has a way of summoning the shadows," I tell him. Fareem laughs his worldly laugh. "Is that the
~ Thomas H. Cook
The Lord's sovereignty over Israel is not an abstract concept. He speaks to the will of Israel, summoning its people to follow him.
~ Thomas R. Schreiner
It is easy enough to call men from the edges of the earth. It is easy enough to summon them to my feet with a thought– it is beautiful to see the tall panther and the sleek deer-hounds circle in the dark. It is easy enough to make cedar and white ash fumes into palaces and to cover the sea-caves with ivory and onyx. But I would give up rock-fringes of coral and the inmost chamber of my island palace and my own gifts and the whole region of my power and magic for your glance.
~ H.D.
A formal invitation had just been delivered. Someone was summoning Langdon to unlock a mystical portal that would unveil a world of ancient mysteries and hidden knowledge.
~ Dan Brown
I can call spirits from the vasty deep
~ Wendy Lesser