Quotes About Calling

We should employ our passions in the service of life," Sir Richard Steele wrote, "not spend life in the service of our passions.

Benedict understood clearly that the function of leadership is to call us beyond ourselves, to stretch us to our limits, to turn the clay into breathless beauty. But first, of course, we have to allow it to happen.

In the face of impermanence and death, it takes courage to love the things of this world and to believe that praising them is our noblest calling.

He's calling us to the Great Exchange--the one where we ccan never lose. As we trade the "many things" that make us anxious, He gives us the "one thing" that calms our hearts. Himself.

Their gods were back. Tiger Lily had Called them. And the Englanders were doomed.

Lord, you call me to live in the world without embracing the ways of the world. Help me to live in a way that preserves my freedom to follow you wherever and however you lead. If I should leave behind a monument, may it be a reminder to others of faith and not foolishness.

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

Arroo!" I am here. "Arroo!" I am here. I am here. I am here. Alone.

God's purpose for my life is to increasingly grow in my personal knowledge of God as I follow Him in a life of faith. And then to make Him known to others.

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 3:13 – 14

How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? ROMANS 10:14

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

It was also my violent heart that broke, falling down the front hall stairs. It was also a message I never spoke, calling, riser after riser, who cares...

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that creativity out and to share that with others.

It is completely a God thing that I am here today because for the first 17 years of my life, I never thought I would ever do music professionally. I'd always liked what my dad did, but I never thought that I wanted to do it, just to be different.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

God made me to be a sports player. He didn't make me to be a professor or any of that other crap.

I always wanted to play a bigger part in the process of cinema, so production felt like a very natural progression and calling.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.

We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.

I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.