Quotes About Calling

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

Life drew me and I followed it.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose. For me, that purpose in my life right now is soccer. There's a cool, personal testimony that goes along with it.

This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life.

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

You have a personal birthright to believe in a God-given mission for your life.

I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue God's calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.

When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!

Life is too short to be safe and sit still and do nothing. Unless of course that is what God has for you to do in a particular place in your life.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

If that blue could stay forever; If that hole could remain forever; If this moment could stay forever... I feel myself shining in the dark... I am arrayed. I am prepared. This is the momentary pause; the dark moment. The fiddlers have lifted their bows.. This is my calling. This is my world. All is decided and ready... I am rooted, but I flow... 'Come' I say, 'Come.

how will my journey change me? I asked the seeress, and she replied, seated on Hlidskjalf: 'l cannot see beyond the trees but they are calling you, only the trees.

It doesn't work like that. You don't just pick your song. The song picks you. Like the Sorting Hat.

The truth is, it is more obedience to submit to God in a low calling than to submit to Him in a higher calling. For it is sheer obedience, mere obedience, that makes you go on in a low calling; but there may be much self-love that makes men go on in a higher calling. For there are riches, credit, and account in the world; and rewards come in by that, which do not in the other.

This is how you honour God, that you can turn this way or that way, as God calls you to it.

Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me.

I'm not sure what the Lord has in store for my future, but I can say for certain that music is not my life. Christ is my life. I love writing, singing, and playing songs that He gives me to share, but whatever He has for me in five or ten years, I want to be willing to step into it. I never want to hold so tightly to my vocation that I lose out on His higher plan.

And although to the strong he has pointed out the prize of their high calling, [ Philippians 3: 14 ] yet he suffers none to faint by the way; [ Matthew 15: 32 ] while he applauds those who lead the van, he does not despise those who bring up the rear.