Quotes About Calling

A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.

I guess God has a sense of humor, when he had a man that wanted to start his life as a priest, end up marrying a preacher.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

William Perkins said, "The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

Man cannot choose his duties.

the Lord knows everyone as he really is and gives each his work to do -- according to what He sees to be most fitting for his soul, and for His own Self, and for the good of his neighbor.

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.

There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in life, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that.