Quotes About Calling

Understandably, they, with others who knew Jim well, wondered if perhaps his ministry might not be more effective in the United States, where so many know so little of the Bible's real message. He replied: "I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.

It is very important that you do only what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may live in a shabby place, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days, you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do.

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Pray for God's grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.

When God gives you a mission, He also gives you everything you need to fulfill that mission.

One of God's high callings for His people is that they be teachers of good things.

What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this earth to do?

The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

Not everyone is meant to charge through the world, carrying a spear.

But if your calling is to make things, then you still have to make things in order to live out your highest creative potential—and also in order to remain sane.

Why am I here? What have I been called to do? How am I getting in my own way? How can I best live out my destiny?

Most individuals have never had enough time, and they've never had enough resources, and they've never had enough support or patronage or reward . . . and yet still they persist in creating. They persist because they care. They persist because they are called to be makers, by any means necessary.

What would you do even if you knew that you might very well fail? What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant? What do you love even more than you love your own ego? How fierce is your trust in that love?

Hearing this announcement, your soul will mobilize accordingly. It will mobilize ecstatically, in fact, because this is what your soul was born for. (Trust me, your soul has been waiting for you to wake up to your own existence for years.) But

If anything, I have come to believe that my genius spends a lot of time waiting around for me—waiting to see if I'm truly serious about this line of work.

The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you. The

No blandishments could make those cats stir if they weren't in the mood, and one does want whatever one is calling to come.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain. If God were God, if He were omnipotent, if He had cared, would this have happened? Is this that I face now the ratification of my calling, the reward of obedience?

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

To call away someone," he went on in the same thrilling voice, "someone who is not quite ready to come, but who is needed elsewhere for a worthier purpose.

fBy living up to their calling, women will succeed in guaranteeing a proper recognition of the unique value of femininity and its crucial mission in the world.

But in anonymous seasons we must hold tightly to the truth that no doubt strengthened Jesus throughout his hidden years: Father God is neither care-less nor cause-less with how he spends our lives. When he calls a soul simultaneously to greatness and obscurity, the fruit—if we wait for it—can change the world.