Quotes About Calling

Today I am getting my instructions. I am getting them from something holy.

all the blood that has been wasted—all of it—gathers into deep coherent veins in the earth and calls itself history—& we make it make sense— & we are asked to call it good.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

The homeliest service that we do in an honest calling, though it be but to plough or dig, if done in obedience and conscience of God's commandment, is crowned with an ample reward; whereas the best works for their kind, preaching, praying, offering evangelical sacrifices, if without respect of God's injunction and glory, are loaded with curses. God loveth adverbs; and careth not how good, but how well.

Heureux sont les hommes qui rencontrent soudain, dans la révélation d'un métier, l'assouvissement de leurs désirs jusque là incertains et la règle pour laquelle ils sont faits. Plus heureux encore ceux qui, riches de passions contradictoires, trouvent dans ce métier leur propre clef, la solution de leur être intérieur et le point d'équilibre entre les tendances qui les déchirent !

Rarely did anyone dream of the Thunders, and anyone who did had a special calling to be a "sacred clown," the one who did the opposite of what was expected.

The phreakers were a diverse group, including John Draper, who called himself Cap'n Crunch after learning that whistles given out with that breakfast cereal could be used to blow 2600 hertz, which allowed free calls.

I mostly needed the liquor to forget those days when the job was a calling rather than a burden

StarClan is calling you, Fireheart," she murmured. "Do not be afraid.

It was a voice other than Reason that replied, 'You could live. You could be. You could do. There's a purpose you have to fulfil. You'd become more conscious of it every day you keep on living. There's a task for you; a responsibility that is yours and only yours.' 'Good enough,' I said. 'I'll get on with it.

Gli assenti hanno bisogno di una voce che li chiami fuori dall'assenza e li costringa a starci nuovamente, per la durata di una canzone almeno

Sometimes you don't have to hear a thunderclap or a loud voice from heaven to know what you're supposed to do

Every true gospel vocation is a resurrection vocation that arrives after a passage through the belly of the fish. All "word of God" vocations are thus formed. There can be no authentic vocation that is not shaped by passage through some such interior.

There is an enormous gap between what we think we can do and what God calls us to do.

Jesus said, "Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life. It requires a certain aptitude and grace. Marriage isn't for everyone. Some, from birth seemingly, never give marriage a thought. Others never get asked—or accepted. And some decide not to get married for kingdom reasons. But if you're capable of growing into the largeness of marriage, do it.

I called you to live at your best, to pursue righteousness, to sustain a drive toward excellence.

And I remembered Willi's prophetic portrait of me, warning me against entering the American competition to be a pastor who "gets things done" and who is "going somewhere.

We fantasize an archaeological scoop. Meanwhile what we have right before us turns out to be far more useful—a theological probe. Instead of being told what Jeremiah's parents were doing, we are told what his God was doing: "Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations—that's what I had in mind for you" (Jer 1:5).

He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us.

Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions and gifts, our human needs and our eternal aspirations. It is the way of life we were created for.

I'll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I'll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, 'You're nobody!' they're calling you 'God's living children.

Jesus] said "Follow me" and ended up with a lot of losers. And these losers ended up, through no virtue or talent of their own, becoming saints. Jesus wasn't after the best but the worst.