38 Quotes About Invitation

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nicholas: I know you, brother. You've been threatened with matrimonial pursuits before. Why are you really here? William: I received an invitation. Nicholas: Not from me you didn't. William: Of course not from you, brother. Parliament would go up in flames before I receive a social invitation from you. Donna MacMeans

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. Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you submit to your gift, people will seek and invite you, you will get well paid because you have perfected your gift Sunday Adelaja

If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer... If you're a pretender come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! Shel Silverstein

Sadness is an invitation to God. Kamand Kojouri

Our weakness is an invitation to discover God's strength. Unknown

I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either. Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity. Elizabeth Gilbert

Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Be prepared to say “no” to some things. That is the key. When you say “yes” to every invitation, event and call, you will come back to meet you plans on the paper in the same state you left them. Israelmore Ayivor

Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests. Michael Bassey Johnson

God chose to deliberately venture into and intentionally occupy depths far below and infinitely beyond that which any human has ever descended, and then to raise Himself back up to glory from those horridly dark places. And I pray that we never miss the fact that Christmas is God’s invitation for us to join Him in the rising. Craig D. Lounsbrough

All of Christ's commands are invitations and all of His invitations are commands. Andy Davis

A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective. Shannon L. Alder

For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps. Craig D. Lounsbrough

The words 'believe' and 'repent' are now largely replaced by other terms such as "Give your life to Christ', 'Open your heart to Christ', 'Do it now', 'Surrender completely', 'Decide for Christ', etc., and in similar language those who profess conversion are sometimes represented as having 'given in'. Iain H. Murray

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. Unknown

True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Only downside to your place is the disturbing low amount of extraneous toiletries. No conditioner? Lip gloss? Sunscreen?" I jerked my thumb toward the front door. "I need to brush my teeth. And I need a sh Becca Fitzpatrick

Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down! ’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them. Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite. Bryant McGill

To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Come on in. The water’s fine. Jason Medina

To get, simply release, and then gently invite. Bryant McGill

I invited him over and he stayed forever. I feed him all my bread, the old peppers turned to mush & fluorescent mold, the chicken thighs unthawed & boneless. He ask for more so I give him my left leg. He ask for more & I give him my lungs & lips. More still, and there goes my bladder. He eats it all, all of me, eats the whole damn house, & I live forever in him or maybe it's the other way around. I swallowed. I swallowed him whole & didn't even notice him thrashing inside me. Danez Smith

I hate these affairs", he'd told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity ball. "They're the worst kind of discrimination. An invitation doesn't really mean that you're invited; it means that a whole lot of people aren't Melinda Cross

There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. It doesn't come in an envelope. It's ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen. It's the invitation to actually live, to fully participate in this amazing life for one more day. Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I've seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live. Turning down this invitation comes in lots of flavors. It looks like numbing yourself or distracting yourself or seeing something really beautiful as normal. It can also look like refusing to forgive or not being grateful or getting wrapped around the axle with fear or envy. I think every day God sends us an invitation to live and sometimes we forget to show up or get head-faked into thinking we haven't really been invited. But you see, we have been invited -- every day, all over again . Bob Goff

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative. Susie Orbach

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court. William Feather