Quotes About Calling

Do what you enjoy doing, do what you're good at doing, and do what the world needs doing.

It may be a dangerous and confusing job. But it's mine to do…

Your life matters. Your life has purpose. You were put on this earth to capitalize on your strengths and achieve your destiny.

When a prophet is accepted and deified, his message is lost. The prophet is only useful so long as he is stoned as a public nuisance, calling us to repentance, disturbing our comfortable routines, breaking our respectable idols, shattering our sacred conventions."7 We will always have a love-hate relationship with the prophets.

We are accepted because of Jesus, and that's the ground of our security. Now it is our holy privilege to walk worthy of that high calling, drawing near to God in confidence, "with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water" (Heb. 10:22).

When I moved back home to northwest Florida after being a cop and a cleric in Atlanta, I never would've imagined I'd become a prison chaplain. But God works in mysterious ways, and when I fell from grace in Atlanta, this is the grace I fell into.

A certain kind of courage is required to follow what truly calls to us; why else would so many choose to live within false certainties and pretensions of security? If genuine treasures were easy to find this world would be a different place. If the path of dreams were easy to walk or predictable to follow many more would go that route. The truth is that most prefer the safer paths in life even if they know that their souls are called another way.

Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives.

What good is a dream that doesn't test the mettle of the dreamer? What good is a path that doesn't carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

The problem in most situations is not a lack of calling; but a fear of responding to the call.

Some might ask whether the path is before us or within us. The answer is: Yes. We are both driven from within by our resident spirit and something outside calls forth the genius within us.

We are wrapped around a mystery to which we were drawn before we were born.

What good is a path that doesn't carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

there is a world of difference between calling something evil and calling someone evil. The first strategy mobilizes resources against the problem; the second only recycles the ultimate cause of the problem, which is ill will, resentment, lack of empathy, and eventually hatred.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

mission is not primarily about going. Nor is mission primarily about doing anything. Mission is about being.

Powerful Leaders intentionally pursue their vocation of who they are not a career of what they do; what's calling you?

It was nearly incomprehensible to him that the same people—that is, the media—who had violently criticized him for saying he might dispute the election result were now calling him illegitimate.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

And in the midst of that calling, God then called me to run for the United States Congress. And I thought, "What in the world would that be for?" And my husband said, "You need to do this." And I wasn't so sure. And we took three days, and we fasted and we prayed. And we said "Lord, is this what you want, are you sure? Is this your will?" And after, along about the afternoon of day two, He made that calling sure.

I looked at my reflection in the mirror. My cycle had begun. I was now a woman. I was ready to do God's work.

Jill Carattini said that offering a blessing to another, specifically our children, is a high calling … a mysterious gift given to all made in God's image. The putting of God's name upon another soul as we go about life is our tongue's greatest utterance. It is a hopeful command, a most uplifted effort. As God's name is set forth, not only is it God who does the blessing, it is God who is the very fulfillment of the words we offer. God is the blessing

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.

The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation—lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling mom, and so on—to have a real prayer life.