Quotes About Calling

I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.

Real success is finding your lifework in the worth that you love.

While looking for our place, we miss our calling. Looking under rocks for gold, while we should have been plucking stars.

God has given everyone a purpose for their life. We all have talents and abilities to make an impact on this world. I think its important for all of us to take time to discover our passions and dreams. We all want to know why we exist.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

You've made your choice. It's for the best, then. We're each called somewhere else.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

There is only one journey, she said, that all men make. They go forth from the Mother, and do what men are born to do, till she stretches out her hand, and calls them home.

He was filled with a vast sense of the momentous, of unknown mysteries. He did not know what he should demand of himself, nor did it seem to matter, for he had not chosen this music he moved to, it had chosen him.

I knocked on the gates of heaven and saint peter said,"we are not ready for you, Mother Teresa.You are needed in the slums.There are no slums up here.

Gifted people cannot escape a sense of calling, a mandate to put their abilities to the test of time and constructive purpose. This is the true legacy of giftedness, the sense of responsibility to leave something valuable behind.

She wanted to have a purpose, something to give her a reason to exist.

For many are called, but few are chosen.

The honour of being admitted into communion with God, and of being employed for him, does not exempt us from the duties of our relations and callings in this world.

All believers are spiritual priests, to offer spiritual sacrifices (1 Pet. 2:5)

The office of the ministry is a divine institution, which does not lie open in common to all, but is confined to those only whom God has qualified for it and called to it: even reason itself directs us to put a difference between the teachers and the taught (for, if all were teachers, there would be none to be taught), and the scriptures sufficiently declare that it is the will of God we should do so.

An apostle is a prime-minister in the kingdom of Christ, immediately called by Christ, and extraordinarily qualified; his work was peculiarly to plant the Christian church, and confirm the Christian doctrine.

The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.

This is the will of God: that you be saints." (1 Thessalonians 4:3)

Catherine of Sienna wrote, "If you are what you should be you will set the whole world on fire.

The world doesn't need another Mother Teresa. The Church doesn't need another Francis of Assisi. The world needs you. The Church needs you.

Living holy lives is the goal of the Christian life and our essential purpose.