Quotes About Calling

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

How wonderful it is to be surprised by God's call, to embrace his word, and to walk in the footsteps of Jesus... Your life will become richer and more joyful each day!

Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.

For a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life.

If you have life, you have purpose.

Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

As your act of dedication in this world you must finally surrender your own life to a life of service.

Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.

Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably engaged in the wrong line of work.

Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.

I'm not qualified," I protested. "Me, a minister? I have no idea how to be a pastor." He said, "When God calls someone, that's all that really matters. Don't let yourself be afraid.

In fact, Carol and I have told each other more than once that if the spirit of brokenness and calling on God ever slacks off in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, we'll know we're in trouble, even if we have 10,000 in attendance.

As a preacher myself, let me be blunt here. Preaching itself can easily become just a subtle form of entertainment. When I stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ, he is not going to ask me if I was a clever orator. He is not going to ask me how many books I wrote. He is only going to ask whether I continued in the line of men and women, starting way back in the time of Adam's grandchildren, who led others to call upon God.

Day after day goes by, and God keeps looking, looking....Doesn't anyone want to call out for his blessing? Upon whom can he pour his grace? Isn't anyone interested?

Simply calling the Great Fire an accident did not satisfy some people, most notably the local newspapers. They demanded a culprit--

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?