Quotes About Calling

A mission doesn't have to be lifelong. Many are temporary and usually prepare us, in ways unknown to us at the time, for some future mission.

The worldly scope and scale of your unique mission is irrelevant; what matters is that you embrace the role that is especially suited to you.

When we hear our talents calling us forth, we hear the voice of God inviting us to fully participate in the adventure of salvation.

Well, hell, Rico. You're wasting your time being a hotelier when you should be a saint.

Yours is the idea, yours the duty.

For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth!

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism--that to live and work *for an idea*is man's calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured

The Puritans wanted to be men of the calling--we, on the other hand, must be.

One may attain salvation in any walk of life; on

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

The earning of money within the modern economic order is, so long as it is done legally, the result and the expression of virtue and proficiency in a calling; and this virtue and proficiency are, as it is now not difficult to see

The only way of living acceptably to God was not to surpass worldly morality in monastic asceticism, but solely through the fulfillment of the obligations imposed upon the individual by his position in the world. That was his calling. 

The Quaker ethic also holds that a man's life in his calling is an exercise in ascetic virtue, a proof of his  state of grace through his conscientiousness, which is expressed in the care  and method with which he pursues his calling. What

The effect of the Reformation as such was only that, as compared with the Catholic attitude, the moral emphasis on and the religious sanction of, organized worldly labor in a calling was mightily increased.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.

Everyone basically has one aria to sing over their entire life, and this one is hers.

there are . . . in every age a few in whose lot the meaning of that age is concentrated"? "I feel that I am one of those persons in my age and sex," she told him. "I feel chosen among women." Margaret would preserve her right to fill an apostolic station, if called.

Jesus enters the garden, in preparation, intending to face his fears by facing his God, his Father, His greatest fear is to offend his Father, to disobey his own calling, its integrity, and the word of God on his life.

If the wind no longer calls to you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name.

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

If one is called to an unusual work in the Kingdom of God, it is necessary that the roots of pride be burned out as soon as possible, otherwise pride would destroy him. Pride is the death-bringer. It ruins everything, even the greatest works conceived with the highest ideals.

JESUS MAY CALL YOU TO CHANGE CAREERS AND BECOME A MISSIONARY . . . BUT IN THE MEANTIME YOU ANSWER HIS CALL BY DILIGENTLY DOING WHATEVER IT IS YOU DO.