Quotes About Calling

Every believer is a saint by calling — holy by calling. He is born of God, a partaker of the divine nature, which is holy. By new birth he is holy. He is dead with Christ, risen in Christ — Christ, who has passed through death and is the resurrection and the life, is his life.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

...if a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him... If you recognize in yourself some such decisive taste, there is no room for hesitation: follow your bent.... soon your every thought will be engrossed in that beloved occupation.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

When you walk in purpose, you collide with destiny.

A great comfort, it has been called, if, in looking on to future years, you are able to think that you are in a profession or a calling from which you will never retire: for the prospect of a total change in your mode of life, and the final pause of the Occupation which for many years employed the greater part of your waking thoughts, and all this amid the failing powers and flagging hopes of declining years, is both a sad and a perplexing prospect to a thoughtful person.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

The focus of Paul's commission is "to call all the Gentiles" to Christ.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

We have a tendency to boil the Reformation down to two points: the authority of Scripture and justification through faith apart from works. However, the Reformers emphasized three essential components of their message, not two. The third was the doctrine of "vocation" or calling. Discipleship must transform all of life because God has a calling for you in every area of your life. The Reformation's championing of calling took the idea of cultural transformation to a new level.

Another thing about these words of the Great Commission to both preach the gospel and make disciples: they are directed to every follower of Jesus. These words were not merely directed to the original disciples. Nor are they meant only for what we might call "professionals"—evangelists, pastors, missionaries, etc. They are for every follower of Jesus. Every man and every woman who believes in Him is called and commanded to go and proclaim His message.

Jesus chose the disciples for what they would become, not for what they were at the time of their call.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. — Rumi (C. 1207 C.E.-1273 C.E.), Sufi poet

People who have lived their whole lives feeling half-complete. Who never truly fit anywhere in the world. Who never understood why they were here, or what they were meant for. Who never answered the call, because they never heard it. Because nothing ever spoke to them.

Gus called Felix's name one last time, as though saying his name would snap him out of it, would miraculously bring Felix back… But Felix was no longer Felix. He was a vampire motherfucker.

So true is this that if we do not respond to the demands of the present, because we do not know in advance whither we may be led, we are simply refusing to hear the call of Jesus Christ. We are refusing to open to him when he knocks on the door and invites us to sup with him.

Jelena had begun thinking about such things, how much having a chance to do what you were good at mattered.

The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are foreign to us. "The thing" does not happen here, it happens somewhere else, in a strange and foreign country. The writer has a foreign origin; we do not know the particular nature of these foreigners, but we feel they feel there is an appeal, that someone is calling them back.

I write, I extend my hand; without my knowing it, this is already a prayer, I extend my hand to you so that you will exist because you do exist, beyond my fingers, your fingers, without my knowing it this is already a response, already I draw to my side the site for you, with one hand I call the other hand, it is in this modest, all-powerful way that I begin to save what is lost. When I write I ask for your hand.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this something as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

Examenul testeaz? nu doar anduran?a, abilitatea ?i ?tiin?a, ci ?i voca?ia. Este de acod daimonul cu calea pe care ai ales-o? Este sufletul t?u cu adev?rat implicat acolo? Reu?ita la un examen poate fi o confirmare, iar e?ecul poate fi calea prin care daimonul ne spune c? nu suntem pe drumul cel bun.

Pentru c? asta lipseÈ™te azi în vieÈ›ile multor oameni È™i asta trebuie noi s? recuper?m: sentimentul unei chem?ri intime, personale È™i un sens al vieÈ›ii.