Quotes About Calling

I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to law school because I didn't know how to earn a living otherwise. I tried to ignore the pull, but it wouldn't let me.

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most.

The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.

I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.

It wasn't until I saw 'The Color Purple' on Broadway when I was 15 that I really solidified acting is what I want to do professionally.

My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.

It's nice to feel that you have a purpose.

Everybody has a purpose.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

I knew that to live a fulfilling life I had to live a purposeful life; a life of service.

I think sometimes we put too much of a gravity on what it is that we do... I just think you go out into the world, and if the door is open, pursue with excellence whatever it is that you feel you are called to pursue.

It is very important to find a calling and pursue it.

If there is a job that you feel passionate about, do what you can to pursue that job; if there is a purpose about which you are passionate, dedicate yourself to that purpose.

I just want to pursue my dream. That is to fight. That is what God put me here to do. He didn't put me here to be a doctor or a lawyer. He put me here to fight.

It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.

Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my passion was always that.

When I pursued music, I was told, 'oh, he's just pursuing fame and fortune and he's left the call of Christ in his life.'

I am running for Attorney General because I believe there is no higher calling than the pursuit of justice.

Being a musician was not my choice; it was really a God-ordained thing, so I'm still passionately chasing after the pursuit of that whole journey and musical expression and discovery.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

I love to fix up a house, but I also love to help people. I feel like that's my calling.

I always wanted to be a footballer; I always wanted to play. I was born to be a footballer.