Quotes About Calling

I asked myself, How many times have I denied my innermost wisdom and silenced this voice? How many times can a woman betray her sou before it gives up and ceases calling to her at all?

I felt the old, irrepressible ache to know what my point in the world might be.

It had not occurred to me that my abilities had been intended, that God had meant to bestow these blessings on me.

Yaltha's words returned to me: You have your destiny, too. They stirred the old longings in me, the terrible need for my own life.

I'm left with nothing but this strange beating in my heart that tells me I'm meant to do something in this world.

I don't doubt you should give yourself to motherhood. I only question what it is you're meant to mother.

Her silver button) reminding me of the destiny I always believed was inside of me, waiting. How can I explain such a thing? I simply know it - the way I know there's an oak tree inside an acorn. I've been filled with a hunger to grow this seed my whole life... That's why I was born for (abolition)... I've come to know it only this night, but it has always been the tree in the acorn...

In the distance we could hear one of the dogs barking at a fish, and the high whine and low rumble of the glacier, and way off, the sound of our mother calling.

Any great gift or power or talent is a burden, and this more than any, and you will often long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law.

here was a Baptist church near their house, and at age twelve or thirteen, Kayne began to walk to it and attend services on a regular basis. She told me that one Sunday during the altar call, I was just so drawn. I want to do this. For some reason, I started crying, and a lady came back to where I was sitting-I didn't come down; she saw me where I was sitting and came back-and started talking to me. She said, `You want to go down?' and I said, `Yes.' So she walked with me.

Love heals. Love makes us better than we ever thought we could be. Loving someone, the act of loving, is a generous gift. True love is our greatest calling. Not just romantic love, but all love.

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

Write your passion and somebody will pay you for it.

Every one of us knows who he is, and what God expects him to do.

same mould as Ruth Blake! God-given

Apologetics is not listed as a spiritual gift for teachers, preachers, or evangelists, as though only some ought to become apologists. Rather, all Christians are called to be ready with an answer (1 Peter 3:15; Jude 3). We all make a case for Christianity in some fashion or another—but are we doing it well?

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

Pero el sacerdocio, dottora, es una carrera de fondo.

God can use all of us no matter where we live, no matter if'n we're young or old, and even if we think we ain't got any special gifts. Pray and ask what you can do for Him, and He'll show you. Maybe not right away, but one day you'll find your answer. I know I did.

God did not call the qualified to serve Him: instead He qualified the called.

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid.

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.

I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.