Quotes about Summon

So the king gave orders to summon the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers to explain his dreams. When they came and stood before the king,

He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.

One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!

Then Jesus’ mother and brothers came and stood outside. They sent someone in to summon Him,

When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his attendants.

He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.

As for the other three, they have made off into some hiding place, and are not likely to trouble you again in the same way now that they realize that I am within call.

When we commit fully to our calling, we acknowledge the forces of inspiration that we hope to summon to our aid.

Any serious pondering of all of life through the Golden Rule is dangerous for our moral health because it will summon us — I know I feel this way just writing the above paragraphs — to live under the King and as one of his kingdom citizens.

No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.