Quotes About Calling

When this happens, something "clicks" within you, and you know you have found what you were created to do. It is an instinctive, gut-level, spiritual experience. You'll know it when you see, hear and feel it.

Furthermore, when God chooses you to do something for Him, He knows you can do it. He never chooses you to do something that you are not capable of doing by His grace. Never run away from your calling out of fear that you will fail.

Your calling is not an afterthought. God does not save you and then say, "Now what am I going to get him to do? What job can I give her in the church?" God saves you because He has a purpose for you.

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say I will shut up, I can't.

that every human soul had a destiny and had a duty to find and fulfill it.

But the thing is—" He hesitated, then looked at me straight on, hazel-eyed and earnest. "I could do something else, and be as good. Care as much, or as little. I haven't got that absolute conviction that there's something in life I'm meant to do—

He'd straightened his shoulders as he spoke; she could see him reach beyond his own emotion and tiredness and grasp his calling as another man might grip his sword.

Wondered often, if I could call that edge to my service, and sheathe it safe again. For I have seen a great many men grow hard in that calling, and their steel decay to dull iron. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

Isaiah, chapter 6, verse 8: Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

I have wondered," he said, so low I could scarcely hear him. "Wondered often, if I could call that edge to my service, and sheathe it safe again. For I have seen a great many men grow hard in that calling, and their steel decay to dull iron. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

You just can't take the doctor out of you.

We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.

I never doubted that singing was what I was meant to do.

In my heart, I was drawn to PR.

That's what drives me - to be able to help people get to their own calling and find their own peace.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

I feel my duty is to make music.

I was on stage from an early age. It always felt to me like something I was born to do.

I definitely would like to embark on acting, give it a shot, you know maybe that's my calling, maybe it's not.

I never wanted to be an engineer.

I was 12 when I was on stage for the first time and had an epiphany that this is what I wanted to do.

May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.'

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!