Quotes About Calling

We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name.

To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

A man must know his destiny.

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.

And now does noble Tristan, Charlemagne's new paladin, Clap hand on oar and calling upon Our Lady's virtues

The devil is persistent, but we must never let him set the agenda. We don't negotiate with the enemy, nor do we let him distract us from our calling in life. In the face of opposition, our answer is always the same: I am a child of God, saved by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I choose to live my life by faith according to what God says is true in the power of the Holy Spirit.

God, however, has not called us to produce fruit, only to bear it as we abide in Christ.

God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry.

There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that for me. I didn't think of it as a job or a career - it was just something that was constant.

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.