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Quotes About Invitation

Too many times, the Church makes Christians feel guilty for keeping the Good News to themselves. Instead, we need to create a culture that overflows with God's extravagant love and power. When we experience His abundant goodness, we find it natural to invite others to partake.
~ Bill Johnson
God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.
~ Bill Johnson
Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.
~ Archibald Alexander
We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.
~ L. Lionel Kendrick
I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree.
~ Nicolas Cage
When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman Polanski, my interest level was very piqued. I was very excited and pleased to get such an offer from Mr. Roman Polanski.
~ Pierce Brosnan
did all in his power to render his guests comfortable; the rich and the great were not invited.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
I'm driving home to change, Win said. Then I'm dining at Merion. Mainliners never ate; they dined. Care to join me?
~ Harlan Coben
Are you coming or not?" Mom asked. Kat could hear the drink in her mother's voice. It was not an unfamiliar sound. "Coming
~ Harlan Coben
I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.
~ Greg Lake
I've never been invited to do 'Stars on Ice' before, which is the only figure skating tour in the U.S., and it's disappointing that I can't perform for my American fans... all because I'm not 'family friendly' enough.
~ Johnny Weir
Mustafa Ali's one of my buddies man, and every so often, he would get home. He would invite me over. We know a couple of people around town.
~ Aiden English
I remember when John Lasseter called me back in the late 1990s to personally invite me to come be the voice of Barbie in 'Toy Story 2.'
~ Jodi Benson
Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.
~ Betty Shabazz
The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
~ Freya Stark
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.
~ Ruskin Bond
Come with me to howling tree?""What?""Howling tree. It's a place a found. Come on
~ Debbie Moon
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
We invite happiness into our lives by humbling ourselves.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome.
~ Sir Walter Scott
With Stephen, I had become a sour, witless bore. With others, I could be light. Men I cared nothing about called me, and every once in a while, I accepted an invitation. On them my indifference worked like an aphrodisiac, Because I didn't want anything, I felt free an jabbered away spinning out all kinds of silliness that seemed only to augment their desire.
~ Siri Hustvedt
O Jesus, here present in the Holy Eucharist, Thy Heart is all aglow with love for me! Thou dost call me, Thou dost urge me to come to Thee.
~ Ildefonsus
There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
~ Saint Augustine
The quietness will slow my pulse, the silence will open my ears, and something sacred will happen. The soft slap of sandaled feet will break the stillness, a pierced hand will extend a quiet invitation, and I will follow.
~ Max Lucado