Quotes About Calling

Whether we call it a job or a career work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity.

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

God Never calls you to Leave you, He calls you to Lead you.

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together man, you got it.

Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.

Jealousy is the evidence that you haven't discerned yet your own assignment.

Stress is the proof you are attempting something that God didn't order you.

Sinclair Ferguson writes, "He who calls them creates in them the ability to respond so that in the very act of his calling he brings them into new life."[163]

by the power of God, who has saved us and called us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace.

If anyone were to discover truth and attain salvation, it must be by God's sovereign grace and effectual calling.

Jesus said, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you" (John 15:16), but

How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

Indeed, illness or death holds no terror for me, but happily for us, ambition is not compatible with the callings we follow. There are so many people in all classes of society, from the highest to the lowest, who believe that, anyway.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

God gave me gifts so that I could use them to help his people. I

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.