Quotes About Calling

I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.

I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.

Being an artist is a job for life.

If you have life, you have purpose. It can't be otherwise.

am born a poet, of a low class without doubt yet a poet. This is my nature and vocation")

Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, and the lyric poem exists somewhere in the region—the register—between speech and song.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

I once had a conversation with the director of a monastery. "Everyone who comes to us," he said, "does so for the wrong reasons." The same is generally true of people who become psychotherapists. It is sometimes possible to persuade people to be come psychotherapists who have not chosen the profession for their own personal reasons; but, for the most part, we have to put up with what we get; namely, ourselves.

Tardes en que está cerca el mar y se oye la voz que dice: "ven".

Each and every person plays the role on earth as per the goal decided not by him/her but merely an invisible God.

we cannot separate the roof from the heart from the trees that were there, standing. & so it is, when I say "night," it is your name I am calling, when I say "field," your thousand, thousand names, your million names.

We often weep beneath Love's cross, But when she calls we her obey.

I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

When you get your show - that's what 'King of Queens' was for me. That was my part; that was my show - I was meant to have that part.

But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?'

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.