Quotes About Calling

I honestly think I was put on the Earth to be some sort of prophet.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

If rock criticism is to be a political calling, which has always been my angle, that's obviously not because it's a fountainhead of protest songs.

Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation. Charles: I don't know what that means. Cordelia: It means you can be a nun. If you haven't a vocation it's no good however much you want to be; and if you have a vocation, you can't get away from it, however much you hate it.

After all, he reflected, his whole uniform was a disguise, his whole new calling a masquerade.

all the city was playing with this sound out there in the blue summer dark, throwing it up and calling it back, promising that, in a little while, life would be beautiful as a story, promising happiness, and by that promise giving it

I've found my line- from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty- without this I am nothing.

Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint...

You have to stop confusing a madness with a mission

You do not write the best you can for the sake of art but for the sake of returning your talent increased to the invisible God, to use or not use as He sees fit.

Evil is more than the sum of individual misdeeds. Evil has a life of its own. It is not enough to stand aside from it. If it is not actively resisted, it sweeps all before it. Part of a Christian's calling is to resist evil, and in doing so, to endure to the end.

The church is not called to be a "change agent"—God is the agent of change. The Lord of the kosmos has already wrought the Great Exchange in his cross and resurrection, and the life of the people of God is sustained by that mighty enterprise.26 The calling of the church is to place itself where God is already at work.

There is no more important calling for the church in our time than claiming the self-identification of the God who is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I didn't have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

I guess I fell into cooking.

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

I never wanted to be a fighter. This is what God said I'm going to do, and I'm happy with that.