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Quotes About Calling

This passage is saying, "Make the most of every area in which God has placed you." Are you single, married, retired, parent, child, friend, employer, employee, student, or grandparent?
~ Timothy S. Lane
Yet we are most true to our identity and calling when we live in the midst of broken people.
~ Timothy S. Lane
The call we have considered in this chapter is not just a call to ministry; it is a call to worship.
~ Timothy S. Lane
Those who maintain that writing cannot be taught are in effect promoting the Priesthood Theory of Writing. I short, a few are called, most are not, and nothing anyone does can alter that process.
~ Tom Bissell
I am just sitting back and trying to take in the idea that the God who created everything around us, He didn't call the mountains or the forest or the ocean to spend eternity with Him, but He called us.
~ Bart Millard
I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.
~ Jud Wilhite
While I am open to good offers when they come by, I have found my calling in theatre.
~ Radhika Apte
I've had offers for Broadway and Hollywood musicals, but I do not want to take just any musical. I want the musical that's right for me when I'm right for it.
~ Anita Bryant
I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
~ Harold Hamm
When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
~ Mackenzie Foy
Sometimes it's okay for careers to find you.
~ Jason Reynolds
Look, coaching is what I love, it's a passion of mine, a calling. I'm gifted to do it. The reason why is that I love helping young people reach their potential and become the best version of themselves, on and off the field.
~ Brian Flores
Once a musician, always a musician.
~ Roger Taylor
I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.
~ Anne Graham Lotz
Journalism doesn't have to be your first love... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going... it helps if you love it.
~ Robert Krulwich
Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
~ Blythe Danner
I remember walking onstage in the first performance, and something hit me like a brick wall, and I just knew at that moment that this is something I had to do for the rest of my life, and I've never looked back.
~ Katherine McNamara
I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you're meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful.
~ Naomi Alderman
I remember feeling a little guilty every time I opened a Chipotle. I felt guilty because I wasn't following my true passion. But that eventually went away. And I realized that this is my calling.
~ Steve Ells
Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; harken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night.
~ P.C. Cast
It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.
~ Pablo Neruda
Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in the world?
~ Pablo Neruda
The Meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away
~ Pablo Picasso
Vocation at its deepest level is, This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.
~ Parker J. Palmer