Quotes About Calling

Calling brings freedom and fulfillment because it orients us toward something bigger than self.

The pastoral ministry cannot be employer-driven, trend-driven or task-driven. Pastoral ministry must be following Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ called me to this work, and following him must be integral to realizing his calling.

Each of us has a certain ministry to perform, and we will each have to answer to God for what we have done with that gift. What have you done with the talents God has given you?

Deep inside of us we all know there is someone we were meant to be.

the mistake of calling an assiette à soupe (soup plate) a soup bowl (bol) because it has sides to hold in soup.

God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

Strive to be faithful to that which God has called you.

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast.

When God calls you to an extraordinary task, He provides extraordinary resources.

Our heart's desire should be to worship God; we have been designed by God for this purpose. If we don't worship God, we'll worship something or someone else.

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

If at the age of thirty you don't know what God has called you to do; you may never know.

You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out

When God created you, He created a dream and wrapped a body around it.

Often the very things that you think have disqualified you are the ones that qualify you to do what God has called you to do.

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.