Quotes About Calling

“How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”

Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peterís brother, said to Him,

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.

Jesus asked a second time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “You know I love You.” Jesus told him, “Shepherd My sheep.”

Jesus asked a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third time, “Do you love Me?” “Lord, You know all things,” he replied. “You know I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.

Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. And after He had said this, He told him, “Follow Me.”

So they proposed two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias.

to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”

Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.

And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.í

This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

and told him, ëLeave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.í

After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.í

This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ëWho made you ruler and judge?í is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

The Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to that chariot and stay by it.”

He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”

“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”