Quotes About Calling

God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.

The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.

When you're called to Revival & Awakening you walk closer to God and most people won't understand your calling so save your breathe you don't have to explain yourself

You can't fulfill your calling inside your comfort zone.

Our "ministry" should be an overflowing of our lives, an overflowing of our walk with Jesus Christ! We aren't our ministry, it's an byproduct of our relationship with Jesus Christ!

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.

For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.

When a man is ordained an apostle, he is ordained to every calling pertaining to the priesthood, a man on the earth can hold; but when he is ordained a high priest, he is ordained a priest after the order of Melchisedek; it is then his right to officiate in all the offices below him.

As the black night descended from the heavens, I knew that in the blink of an eye I would witness the death of the sunset. I saw the exposed and firm chest of the vast earth; its pose was one of calling, of beckoning. And just as a mother beckons her children, so the earth beckoned the coming of night.

His occupation gave me the feeling of "tragedy" in the most sensuous meaning of the word. A certain feeling as it were of "self-renunciation," a certain feeling of indifference, a certain feeling of intimacy with danger, a feeling like a remarkable mixture of nothingness and vital power— all these feelings swarmed forth from his calling, bore down upon me, and took me captive, at the age of four.

Yet another memory: It is the odor of sweat, an odor that drove me onward, awakened my longings, overpowered me… Needless to say, the odor could not, at that time, have had any direct relationship with sexual sensations, but it did gradually and tenaciously arouse within me a sensuous craving for such things as the destiny of soldiers, the tragic nature of their calling, the distant countries they would see, the ways they would die…

it did gradually and tenaciously arouse within me a sensuous craving for such things as the destiny of soldiers, the tragic nature of their calling, the distant countries they would seem the ways they would die.

it did gradually and tenaciously arouse within me a sensuous craving for such things as the destiny of soldiers, the tragic nature of their calling, the distant countries they would see, the ways they would die.

Cuando la intimidad carnal se viste con la dignidad de una indumentaria como la que llevaban los dos esa tarde, engendra una tensión contenida tal que parece que los cuerpos, aguantando el aliento, estuvieran llamándose el uno al otro. Es lo que se llama la 'filosofía del atuendo'.

I love the Holy Spirit. She is like the wild child of the Trinity, anywhere and everywhere moving, calling forth, and stirring things up.

To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety and security for the perilous life of the spiritual revolutionary? How many are willing to truly learn that their own cherished concepts are wrong? Striking provocative or mysterious poses in the safety of Internet [social media] is far easier than taking the risks involved in the hard work of genuine initiation.

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.