Quotes About Calling

As He was walking along, He saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Levi got up and followed Him.

On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Then Jesus went up on the mountain and called for those He wanted, and they came to Him.

He appointed twelve of them, whom He designated as apostles, to accompany Him, to be sent out to preach,

These are the twelve He appointed: Simon (whom He named Peter),

James son of Zebedee and his brother John (whom He named Boanerges, meaning “Sons of Thunder”),

Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,

Then Jesusí mother and brothers came and stood outside. They sent someone in to summon Him,

and a crowd was sitting around Him. “Look,” He was told, “Your mother and brothers are outside, asking for You.”

And He did not allow anyone to accompany Him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.

Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I will drink, or be baptized with the baptism I will undergo?”

“We can,” the brothers answered. “You will drink the cup that I drink,” Jesus said, “and you will be baptized with the baptism that I undergo.

Many people admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So they called the blind man. “Take courage!” they said. “Get up! He is calling for you.”

for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his motherís womb.

“I am the Lordís servant,” Mary answered. “May it happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel left her.

But his mother replied, “No! He shall be called John.”

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ëPrepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.

At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place, and the crowds were looking for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving.

When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesusí knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”