Quotes About Calling

When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

The teacher's life is painfull and therefore would be pityed: it wrastles with unthankfulnesse above all measure...Our calling creepes low and hath pain for companion.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

The problem with Fate is that no matter how many times you call out to her, she has her own timing that's irrelevant to whatever anyone else happens to be doing

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

i am restless. things are calling me away. the stars are pulling me by my hair again.

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again

Our hankering for a state of leisure or leisure state is the proof of the fact that most of us are working at a task to which we could never have been called by anyone but a salesman, certainly not by God or by our own natures. Traditional craftsmen whom I have known in the East cannot be dragged away from their work, and will work overtime to their own pecuniary loss. Why Exhibit Works of Art?

Whenever there's smoke and the leftist media aren't calling 911, that means there's a huge fire raging out of control somewhere. But

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me (Isaiah 61:1).

The one object God had in making you a branch is that Christ may through you bring life to men. Your personal salvation, your business and care for your family, are entirely subordinate to this. Your first aim in life, your first aim every day, should be to know how Christ desires to carry out His purpose in you.

And all the branch possesses belongs to the vine. The branch does not exist for itself, but to bear fruit that can proclaim the excellence of the vine: it has no reason of existence except to be of service to the vine. Glorious image of the calling of the believer, and the entireness of his consecration to the service of his Lord.

It is the one who does what God commands to whom God can entrust His work, whom God can use to be a type of savior to others.

Let us each find our what our work is and which souls are entrusted to our special prayers.

Do be still now, and listen to your Father calling you. Ask for and count upon the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, to open your heart to understand this holy calling. And then speak out the answer you have to give to this call.

No question to the church is of more intense and pressing importance than this: What can be done to waken believers to a sense of their holy calling and make them see that to work for God and offer themselves as instruments through whom God can do His work ought to be the one purpose of their life?

if the work of creating consistently leaves us depressed or drained, it is likely that we have somehow missed the path.

The right question is whether, when we undertake the work we believe to be our vocation, we experience the joy and humility that come only when God multiplies our work so that it bears thirty, sixty and a hundredfold beyond what we could expect from our feeble inputs.

Missions is practicing God's presence until His passion compels us to obey.

Our clients depend on us, I shot back. That's why they keep calling back. Our motto was, one call, seven sitters, remember? Not one call, four or five sitters who bothered to show up and a couple of others out shopping.