Quotes About Calling

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.

A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.

Encuentra algo más grande que tú mismo. Encuentra algo a lo que valga la pena dedicarle la vida entera. Encuentra algo que te tome varios años conseguir. Después, invierte todo tu tiempo en alcanzarlo».

It seems that those God has called to lead often face much opposition and much temptation. Pray that their ministry will be powerful, and pray genuinely that they and their families would thrive under God's protection.

Our obedience to God will not always achieve the results we want, but our ultimate call is not to be successful, but to be faithful!

But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God's instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted. 1 Peter 2:9–10, THE MESSAGE

I realized that my identity was not in my leading but in my relationship with God.

God's will for your life is fulfilling the Great Commission. God's will for your life is making disciples.

When God calls, be patient. Your responsibility is to take your next step.

Are you open to the possibility that there is one who created you to be who you are and calls you to be who he alone knows you can be? Then listen to Jesus of Nazareth and his two words that changed the world—"Follow me." —OS GUINNESS

we must choose to walk in the plan He has ordained for our lives.

Art is a high calling – fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others – indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.

A igreja de Cristo não precisa de profissionais presunçosos, preocupados apenas em administrar a própria carreira. A igreja não precisa de membros voltados para o sucesso que buscam apenas outros vencedores. A igreja não precisa daqueles que esperam uma vida boa porque trabalham com afinco. Antes, os cristãos devem colocar em prática o ideal das profissões: servir, em vez de ser servido. p.38

Tis a strange calling!' muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, 'to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and downs that may happen to come out of other men's throats.

Recognize the call as a prime fact of human existence; (b) align life with it; (c) find the common sense to realize that accidents, including the heartache and the natural shocks the flesh is heir to, belong to the pattern of the image, are necessary to it, and help fulfill it. A calling may be postponed, avoided, intermittently missed. It may also possess you completely. Whatever; eventually it will out. It makes its claim. The daimon does not go away.

The central call of every disciple is to imitate this life, manifest this kingdom, and thereby engage in this warfare.

When seen through the lens of a servant's heart, leadership becomes not just a job but a calling. Lives are changed for the better. Next-generation leaders are molded. Along the way, the sense of destiny God planted in each individual soul finds fulfillment.

Preachers who pride themselves on never giving a public invitation to be saved, never calling for a response of any kind, reveal not greater fidelity to the gospel but a lack of faith in its power.

We know we are called to act like quality men with urgency that is governed by clarity in the strength of the Lord. What remains is this matter of love.

God will call; they won't answer. Stubbornness of the heart is a terminal sickness. There is no solution for that condition apart from repentance and God's work of grace to break the heart.

But this is about more than just work, a job, or even a career. Vocation may have little to do with one's actual work. For the deepest vocation is to become who you are, to become your "true self," the person whom God created and calls you to be.

Desire is a primary way that God leads people to discover who they are and what they are meant to do.

Whether we are rich or poor, young or old, man or woman, straight or gay: all of us are called to our own brand of personal holiness.