Quotes About Invitation

they did so by invitation of the pharaoh.

A girl phoned me the other day and said, "Come on over. There's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

After all, when no name springs spontaneously to mind, when you have to rummage in your address book for someone to invite, it is always best to give up trying, if only out of regard for the very concept of friendship.

Salvation is a simple yet mysterious truth. The way is clear: a person must agree with God about his sins and turn from them. He must personally invite Jesus into his life as Lord and Savior. My friend Ron Dunn put it best, I think, when he said that salvation happens when "we give all we know about ourselves to all we know about Jesus." This is a transaction that takes place by faith.

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.

Thank you for inviting me to speak at the Chang-Ch'un

The door is open. Go!

Come inside," it says, "for CD's, VIDEO's, DVD's, and BOOK's.

She was not just inviting scandal, she was inviting it in partnership with ridicule.

It's not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it's about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives.

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

I always have difficulty with people who are not openly warm, expressive. I need a certain sign, a certain invitation.

am discovering her pretenses. She is always smiling, gay, but underneath she feels unreal, remote, detached from experience. She acts as if she were asleep. She is trying to awaken by falling into bed with anyone who invites her.

I had resigned my temporary lectureship—thankless, dreary work, from which I would be suddenly distracted by the slightest song, the slightest sound coming from the country outside; in every passing cry I heard an invitation. How often I have leapt from my reading and run to the window to see—nothing pass by! How often I have hurried out of doors. . . The only attention I found possible was that of my five senses.

You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,' he said. It's that simple.

It's cold. You should come inside.

Think of the Come direction as the human phrase equivalent of "Huddle," and encourage your puppy with that level of confidence. Convey that Come invites reconnection and that togetherness is the safest, most wonderful place to be.

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

God for our sake is willing to stoop down and, by such a wonderfully gentle and intimate invitation, entice us to him, so that we may rest safely and quietly under his protection.

Warraner looked pleasantly surprised at the question, like a Mormon who had suddenly found himself invited into a house for coffee, cake, and a discussion of the wit and wisdom of Joseph Smith.

No hubo advertencia, ni invitación a volverse con las manos en alto, ni opción a rendirse. Esos gestos eran para los buenos en las películas del Oeste, los que llevaban sombreros blancos y al final se quedaban con la chica.

I'd ask you in for a nightcap, but I have no booze. Oh, and I don't want to. There's that too." "I won't take it personally." "I really wish that you would," she said, and then she was gone.

the world bars strangers or makes them present their papers—but the kingdom offers them hospitality and invites them to the wedding feast.