Quotes About Calling

When I got the job with Fox, I said 'God, are you sure?' I know nothing about politics; I've been covering car accidents and street closures and the pothole patrol in my hometown.

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

As a senior in high school, I had a strong sense that God wanted me in some kind of ministry.

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

I realised music was my calling, and I am one of those who's strongly bound by an infectious enthusiasm and passion.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

I wasn't sure music was an option for me.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.

It was a sort of organic thing. I never went, 'I must be an actress.' I thought, 'I think I could do this. I think I could be good at this.' I would just get sort of hungry when I read something I thought I can do well, whether it was in books or in scripts or if I saw a certain movie. It sort of happened quite naturally.

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

I gave my life to Christ, and I thought that would be it for me, and He was, like, 'No, you're not finished with acting; acting is not finished with you. This is your talent. Go back into it, but you're going back into it with a heart that's not obsessive over it.'

If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.

Would it not make sense that God not only wants to join us in our work but to increasingly conform us into greater Christlikeness while we work?

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.

Heaven called . . . we're a match!

You have no greater responsibility than to determine what God put you here on earth to accomplish.