Quotes About Calling

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."

A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.

When I pressed Jesus to my heart, I said to Him: 'I will be a priest. I promise You!' ...Oh, what graces Our Lord gave me then! Yes, I believe my conversion at that time was sincere and perfect.

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.

Your calling is what you would do whether you were paid to do it or not. Your calling is what you have to do in order to be happy. Your

Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very difficult. Few of us always succeed, yet making the effort is our most noble calling. It is the world's only real chance to begin again.

I can see that the spiritual path has been the calling of my soul for a very long time, and I am ready to devote the rest of my life to walking it as best I can.

Every man has but one destiny

De fiecare data, imi aparea tot mai clar ca unicul lucru pe care doream sa-l fac in viata era sa devin scriitor si astfel mi se intarea convingerea ca singura cale pentru a reusi este aceea de a te darui, trup si suflet, numai literaturii.

Ik was er heilig van overtuigd dat ze niet zou bellen. Tenslotte was ik een hinderlijke getuige van een verleden dat ze koste wat kost wilde uitwissen; anders zou ze nooit zo hebben gehandeld als ze de hele avond gedaan had, door me op die manier te ontwijken.

Thou art a minister of the Word; Mind thy Business!

But God doesn't call the qualified; God qualifies the called.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

The scientist who would rather refute than comprehend demonstrates he has chosen the wrong calling.

God uses not so much gifts for evangelism (though there is a biblical gift of evangelism) but the faithfulness of thousands and millions of Christians who would never say evangelism is their gift. Your conclusion that you are not gifted for a particular task does not absolve you of responsibility to obey. You may conclude that evangelism is not your gift, but it is still your duty. Not