Quotes About Calling

What does genius mean? God has put us here specifically... every person has a job or journey to do. It's just a matter of finding what we're here to fulfill or execute. That's genius to me.

I knew if I were ever to leave 'Godspell,' which I loved so much, it would have to be for something really spectacular.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change.

We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.

There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

Spiritually speaking, every human being has a destiny and a duty to perform.

We're born spiritually dead, and I'm calling for everyone to become spiritually alive. Secondly, don't wait until later to live the way you were created.

Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.

There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

If God has called you to something, He will equip you to be what He has called you to be. If He has called you to be a responsible, faithful, diligent leader, as a man, He will equip you to do that.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.