Quotes About Calling

Love would never keep a man from his Personal Legend.

His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far more than physical and yet pervading the restlessness of his body, was a burden to him until he could find the path for its release.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

I remember Art Blakey saying to me, "Just remember, we're blessed to do what we do."

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

When art calls, you have to follow it. It doesn't happen often, so take the opportunity when it strikes. In all reality, what I do is art. I do create fabulous pieces of decorative baked goods.

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

God works at the edges of life, in the alleys, far away from the clout and the image and the prestige so esteemed by the world. God's people have always been marginalized. The Bible makes this clear and normative: We are called to the edges, like Abraham – to trust in a God of the edges who moves us and leads us in ways we can't comprehend, and in ways the world dismisses as crazy.

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. Hey, YOU! are the sea's exact words. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

The core of your life is your purpose

We all live as long as we need to. It just happened that I have something to do that's taken a very long time.

That's a strange hobby for a Church Knight. God hired me as a fighting man, Sparhawk, not as a monk. I fight whenever He tells me to, but the rest of my time is my own.

El servicio es para lo que venimos a este mundo.

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.

It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo

Are you up to your destiny?

What, Lucius, ho! I cannot, by the progress of the stars, Give guess how near to day. Lucius, I say! I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly. When, Lucius, when? awake, I say! what, Lucius!

I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no.

1Pet 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 1Pet 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

To all of us comes that moment in life when we are literally tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to ourselves and our talents. What a pity if that moment finds us unprepared.