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Quotes About Calling

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.
~ Henry Clay Trumbull
I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.
~ Shirley Jackson
Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.
~ Ellen G. White
I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.
~ Billy Preston
The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.
~ Martyn
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.
~ Mark Driscoll
God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
No one else can tell you what your life's work is, but it's important that you find it. There is a part of you that knows - affirm that part.
~ Willis Harman
There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.
~ Adah Isaacs Menken
Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.
~ Paulo Coelho
We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do
~ Gene Robinson
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
~ William Ellery Channing
A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.
~ Bruno Rossi
Men are immortal till their work is done.
~ David Livingstone
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
~ Anna Jameson
Most saints live to regret their career choice.
~ Bob Stokes
Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.
~ Chip Conley
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
~ Florence Nightingale
Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.
~ Francis Chan
If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.
~ George Ade
My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
~ Howard Finster