Invitation Quotes

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“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, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“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, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“It is no harm to accept an invitation of a stranger,
but better visit an occasion of people we know well.”
― Toba Beta

“And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. "Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.”
― Martha Grimes, The Man With a Load of Mischief

“The most sacred invitation that a person can extend to us is to invite us into their pain. But that means that we have to choose to knock on a door that we often prefer to pretend is not there.”
― 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, The Education of Mrs. Brimley

“I used to walk about the world pretending to be so tall. I would lift my chin higher, hopeful that in some small way I was actualizing my desired grandiosity. But I was not grand. I was not good or pure. I was only human. Now, I walk about the world aware of the grandiosity that surrounds me. And instead of feeling overwhelmed or small, I feel invited. Invited to explore a life that offers experiences much greater than any I have had thus far. -Marquita Burke De Jesus”
― Marquita Burke De Jesus

“As I get older, I realize just because I'm invited doesn't mean I have to accept.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are

“Хиггинс: Она сегодня придет к вам в гости.
Миссис Хиггинс: Не помню, когда я ее приглашала.
Хиггинс: Вы и не приглашали. Я ее пригласил. Если б вы ее знали, вы бы ее ни за что не пригласили.
("Пигмалион", Б. Шоу)”
― Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“God invites. Man indoctrinates. The former is an invitation to run the wilds of an eternity anticipated now in order to fully live there later. The latter is a set of chains that knows nothing of running, nor the space within which to do so.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I felt an unfamiliar happiness just being in her company, as though a secret door had been opened, and Kathy had beckoned me across the threshold—into a magical world of warmth and light and and Kathy had beckoned me across the threshold—into a magical world of warmth and light and I could feel myself thawing in the heat, softening around the edges, like a tortoise emerging into the sun after a long winter’s sleep, blinking and waking up. Kathy did that for me—she was my invitation to life, one I grasped with both hands.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Learn to read between the lines to understand where you are not invited anymore.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Will this journey of mine ultimately take me to a pinnacle or a pit? I am certain to rise to the former if I journey with God, and I am doomed to land in the latter if I’ve neglected to extend Him an invitation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Remember my party tonight!”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“The future is always on its way, but never here. That's why you never invite it for dinner.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“It is not what you first think. There is no effort of will, no firm resolve in the face of this thing called living. There is only paying attention to the quiet each morning, while you hold your cup in the cool air & then that moment you choose to spread your love like a cloth upon the table & invite the whole day in again.”
― Brian Andreas, Theories of Everything

“Faith steps beyond logic, thereby inviting logic to something higher than itself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Pandemic Wedding Invitation

Keeping hands apart from each other,
your faces covered with happiness and smile,
Protecting each other.
Together with our families and your presence
with healthy blessing from your
heart make the magical thread stronger between US.”
― Sarvesh Murthi .D.D

“Always reject the invitation to anger, it is not worth honoring.”
― Khuliso Mamathoni, The Greatest Proposal

“Tables aren’t meant for just one person. That’s a desk. A desk only admits one. And who holds a dinner at a desk anyway?”
― Koki Oyuke, Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Man will never be able to create what God freely invites us to.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The oddity of it all is that I can do absolutely nothing, yet I am capable of doing absolutely everything. Such a perplexing dichotomy can only be explained by whether I have invited God into my circumstances, or I neglected to mail the invitation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You see me shining today,haha.. it where I'm coming from the pit of fire that shaped me to glowing graduate me on who i was previous.The pain, day and night tears fearness,low self esteem,being unknown mat for everyone, rejected, victim of rape, from zero,hopeless,called by names.I'm trying to say worse then you know God take me from ashes to the Kings table give him all the Glory that what he can do for you if you give him your heart. I didn't choose him but he does axctually i used to curse him but his grace doesnt pass me by,I'm sure you need him too before sunset.”
― Nozipho N.Maphumulo

“You told me that this city was better seen at night. Are you all talk, or will you ever bother to show me?'

A low laugh as he looked me over. I didn't recoil from his gaze.

When his eyes found mine again, his mouth twisted into a smile so few saw. Real amusement- perhaps a little bit of happiness edged with relief. The male behind the High Lord's mask. 'Dinner,' he said. 'Tonight. Let's find out if you, Feyre darling, are all talk- or if you'll allow a Lord of Night to take you out on the town.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“The waiting that God invites us into is not a dull void but an invitation to participate in God’s own life.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

“You might ask what an invitation is really inviting you to.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is filled with invitations to experience joy and goodness.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“You could tell more about a stranger by seeing their house than you ever would by inviting them to yours.

- Cassie”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals