Quotes About Calling

Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

Il faut suivre ta boussole [You must follow your compass], as we say in French. Do what feels right to you, then figure out how to earn a living at the same time.

Phillipians 3:14) No Lots wife here. No looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah here. Paul knows it is out there in the future, up ahead wherever heaven is taking us, that we will win "the prize" of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

She works hard because she has to. She isn't attempting to discern an elusive calling. She is raising her babies, working for a living, doing the best she can with what she has. Her purpose may not venture outside the walls of her home. We will never know her name. She probably won't step into leadership or innovation or advocacy or social revolution. Yet she is also worthy of the calling she has received.

We are called to this work, and it might not seem like much, but if you play your one note and I play mine and she plays hers, together it will create a beautiful song that sounds like freedom for the captives and good news to the poor. May the broken-hearted be healed and ashes turned to beauty in our generation. God, make us worthy of Your calling.

You don't need to wait another day to figure out your calling. You're living it, dear one. Your gifts have a place right now, in the job you have, in your stage of life, with the people who surround you. Calling is virtually never big or famous work; that is rarely the way the kingdom comes. It shows up quietly, subversively, almost invisibly. Half the time, it is unplanned—just the stuff of life in which a precious human steps in, the good news personified.

You are good at something for a reason. God designed you this way, on purpose. It isn't fake or a fluke or small. These are the mind and heart and hands and voice you've been given, so use them.

you. Calling is virtually never big or famous work; that is rarely the way the kingdom comes. It shows up quietly, subversively, almost invisibly. Half the time, it is unplanned—just the stuff of life in which a precious human steps in, the good news personified.

Listen quietly... the calling inside you is real... your innate wisdom is waiting for you to say yes and step into all of who you are.

Pay attention to the things you're drawn to, the things you're good at, the things you lose yourself in, the things that make you stand up and say, "My foot! I can't feel my foot!" because you've been sitting in the same position for hours, totally engrossed.

Much of the time we pretend we aren't clear on what out calling is when what's really going on is that we're horrified to face it because it seems too big or too impossible to make a living at or completely out of the question for us.

Thousands of musical voices, like rain on water, beckoned.

This is the mission we are all called to as believers, the noble task of the church. It's not enough to be theologically brilliant without the heart of a missionary. It's sometimes intangible work planted in the messy soil of relationships instead of the cleaner territory of theology.

I prayed a one-line prayer simply because my Christian labor had failed me and I had no idea what else to do (and I strongly advise against this prayer unless you are quite ready for God to take you seriously and wreck your life): "God, raise up in me a holy passion.

This is my high calling: to live on mission as an adopted daughter of Jesus. If people around me aren't moved by my Christ or my church, then I must be doing a miserable job of representing them both.

living on mission where you've been sent will transform your faith journey.

Non conosciamo mai la nostra altezza Finché non siamo chiamati ad alzarci. E se siamo fedeli al nostro compito Arriva al cielo la nostra statura. L'eroismo che allora recitiamo Sarebbe quotidiano, se noi stessi Non c'incurvassimo di cubiti Per la paura di essere dei re

I did realise that this job was too grim for most people, all the stinking and leaking and dying. Mine was a peculiar vocation.

Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?