Quotes About Calling

Films were always there at the back of my mind. I would try to move away, but films kept coming to me. I would do movies for friends. I guess some things are meant to be!

The journey from engineering to acting just happened. I guess some things are meant to be.

I think I used to not know if I could be a good pastor because I think I had some things in mind that I thought were part of being a pastor that don't necessarily have to be.

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was drawn to it.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

God has given us all different abilities and gifts, so that through them we can bring God's love and His presence into the land where we are called

The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen.

Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God's highest callings upon your life.

We are meant to do the work of angels for we are often disguised from ourSelves.

God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.

So lately, been wonderingWho will be there to take my placeWhen I'm gone, you'll need love To light the shadows on your face.

coincidence is a sacred word, the calling card of the Spirit. Such incidents of harmonic convergence are tokens of love from a loving God whose Spirit reveals this to me.

Notice that, in making ourselves available, we are not doing God any favors. We give ourselves for God's use to benefit creation, not to benefit God.

But it was not a new idea. We call out; we are answered. It has been that way from the beginning of belief, and it continues to this very moment.

One's prime is the moment one was born for. 

His Holiness told us how he saw the Basilica of St. John Lateran falling, and how a poor beggar had rushed forward to support the falling church with his shoulder. Each of you, my brothers, is that poor beggar. No sword is placed upon your shoulders like a man being knighted, but the pillars of the church itself rest on your shoulders. And that is what we are now sent to do.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

Don't ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.

Matt heard a dove calling from the roof of the hospital. No hope, it said. No hope. No hope.

The women looked from one to the other, knowing what the men didn't know. We knew the heartbeat and interior graces, compensation for our own clumsiness; the beatitude as we renounced our bodies, our noble little parasites the higher calling. We knew, without saying, the watery rollover, tremor, seismic shudders, the steadiness of the baby's hiccups, the reliable stab from a kick to the kidney