Quotes About Calling

I feel called to be faithful.

I will stay faithful to what God has called me to do all the days of my life, and I don't try to figure it out.

Even as a child, I would get film offers, and all my friends would tease me saying, 'You will also be an actor like your father,' or 'Don't forget us.' I always took it as a joke, but subconsciously, I felt maybe this was my true calling.

'High Maintenance' became my calling card for the bulk of my television career.

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don't feel I've been called to that yet. Now, that could change. There's no telling what kind of call God will put on my life.

If God tells me to write another book, then I will.

The Bible tells me that every life is holy; the Bible tells me that every life is loved; the Bible tells me that every life is called to be all that it can be.

no one in the biblical tradition ever is granted an experience of God without being subsequently sent. Scriptural religion is a religion of mission.

Balthasar says anything beautiful first arrests you—you're stopped in your tracks by it. Then, Balthasar says, the beautiful elects you. You've been chosen. Not everyone who hears Dylan becomes a fan, but I got elected. Finally, he says, the beautiful always sends you. You're sent on a mission.

And let us remember, too, that one does not have to have the prestige of the world to be greatly used in the Kingdom of God.

Evangelism is not an optional accessory to our life. It is the heartbeat of all that we are called to be and do. It is the commission of the church that gives meaning to all else that is undertaken in the name of Christ.

Othalas: Chosen don't choose themselves!

She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at best, work's about status and pay cheques for them, it hasn't got value in itself.

Automatically, without considering what he was doing, but with the same desire for comfort that had pushed him into this café, Strike pulled his phone out of his pocket again and called Robin . . .

She heard melody and harmony and counterpoint; he heard something calling him from far, far away.

Does the place you're called to labor Seem too small and little known? It is great if God is in it, And He'll not forget His own. Are you laid aside from service, Body worn from toil and care? You can still be in the battle, In the sacred place of prayer. When the conflict here is ended And our race on earth is run, He will say, if we are faithful, "Welcome home, My child – well done!

Is your place a small place? Tend it with care!— He set you there. Is your place a large place? Guard it with care!— He set you there. Whate'er your place, it is Not yours alone, but His Who set you there. —John Oxenham1

Come home, come home, Ye who are weary, come home; Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, Calling, O sinner, come home!

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. – John 9:4

Then I said, "Here am I! Send me." – Isaiah 6:8

Secret #1: Discover Your Unique Purpose Every follower of Christ has a general purpose in life—to bring God glory and to enjoy Him forever. But each of us also has a unique purpose that answers the question, "Why has God placed me in this world?

I had not been thinking or speaking of the Chinese or the heathen world, but as I awoke with that vision on my mind, I did tremble with the Holy Spirit, and I threw myself on my knees, and every fiber of my being answered, "Yes, Lord, I will go."22

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.