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Quotes About Summoning

This is the way we summon one another, but it is not the way we call upon the Name. We stand in rags, we beg for tears to dissolve the immovable landmarks of hatred. How beautiful our heritage, to have this way of speaking to eternity, how bountiful this solitude, surrounded, filled, and mastered by the Name, from which all things arise in splendour, depending one upon the other.
~ Leonard Cohen
Stellar Spirits are not "Shields".
~ Hiro Mashima
He said it aloud, in a great ringing voice. Yuth-Kaathak ngom'm! Ygar naa Ithorthak! Sh'ayaa Ubb nagarr'nya Ib! Ib-nya gryalak!
~ Unknown
Rachel, you summon demons. You're good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It's not going to go away.
~ Kim Harrison
For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Black wizards don't just grow up like toadstools, you know. Someone has to teach them complicated things like summoning demons, ritual magic, and clichéd villain dialogue.
~ Jim Butcher
The demon trapped in the summoning circle screamed, slamming its crablike pincers against the unseen barrier, hurling its chitinous shoulders from side to side in an effort to escape the confinement. It couldn't. I kept my will on the circle, kept the demon from bursting free. Satisfied, Chauncy? I asked it. The demon straightened its hideous form and said, in a perfect Oxford accent, Quite. You understand, I must observe the formalities.
~ Jim Butcher
Five white candles surrounded my summoning circle, the points of an invisible pentacle. White for protection. And because they're the cheapest color at Wal-Mart. Hey, being a wizard doesn't make money grow on trees.
~ Jim Butcher
This Army of Light was mine. I had summoned it. I had DRAWN it. Could I have stopped it? I don't know. The truth is, I didn't want to.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
Too, did I do anything in as poor taste as die here, Chester would be sorely vexed, and I had no desire to catch a minatory lecture from him on the subject. He had access now to an entire library of arcana; surely there would be some volume on the summoning of ghosts if I had the poor taste to expire before he could reach me to deliver it.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
These idiot Satanists have been dancing through the woods at midnight for centuries, and they've never succeeded in summoning up the dead before.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
“Whom shall I bring up for you?” the woman asked. “Bring up Samuel,” he replied.
~ 1 Samuel 28:11
Then I summoned the leaders: Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, as well as the teachers Joiarib and Elnathan.
~ Ezra 8:16
After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
~ Ezekiel 38:8
to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
~ Acts 25:3