Calling Quotes

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true

~ Vera Nazarian

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

~ Marianne Williamson

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.

~ Jeannette Walls

God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, . . . who will go for Us? The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

~ Oswald Chambers

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.

~ Jerry Bridges

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.

~ Brennan Manning

But beware of this about callings: they may not lead us where we intended to go or even where we want to go. If we choose to follow, we may have to be willing to let go of the life we already planned and accept whatever is waiting for us. And if the calling is true, though we may not have gone where we intended, we will surely end up where we need to be.

~ Steve Goodier

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

~ Michael Card

Who is She? She is your power, your Feminine source. Big Mama. The Goddess. The Great Mystery. The web-weaver. The life force. The first time, the twentieth time you may not recognize her. Or pretend not to hear. As she fills your body with ripples of terror and delight.But when she calls you will know you’ve been called. Then it is up to you to decide if you will answer.

~ Lucy H. Pearce

It’s important to understand that at every point of opposition to who we are or to what God has called us to do, we are presented with the options of either conforming and giving in, or standing our ground and becoming stronger in who God has made us to be

~ Gabriel Wilson

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz

Every believer is called to teach and each needs to exercise toward this function. Otherwise, they will remain a babe and never mature. Sharing what the believer has learned should begin as soon as a person comes to know the Lord.

~ Henry Hon

People often ask if it was calling. My answer always is yes.

~ Paul Kalanithi

Adventures call a valiant few, happenstance upon calls many.

~ Anastasia Bolinder

Adventures call a valiant few, happenstance calls many.

~ Anastasia Bolinder

There is a young abused girl whose recovery is dependent on your willingness to honour your calling as a pastor, social worker, psychologist, etc.

~ D.s. Mashego

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.

~ Paul Kalanithi

Once you make up your mind to be obedient to God, He will fight for you

~ Sunday Adelaja

Serve the Lord, do not look for excuses

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you have a ministry, dedicate yourself to it, do everything with love and with a clean heart

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential

~ Sunday Adelaja

God created you for His high purpose, discovering and understanding that that purpose is important

~ Sunday Adelaja

Some might ask whether the path is before us or within us. The answer is: Yes. We are both driven from within by our resident spirit and something outside calls forth the genius within us.

~ Michael Meade

From the moment of your birth, you have a calling

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every gift, talent and every calling that you have from God has been given to you because somebody needs it

~ Sunday Adelaja

God expects fruits from every calling, every talent and every gift

~ Sunday Adelaja

You can't fulfill your calling inside your comfort zone.

~ Johnathan Key

Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it’s up to us to keep it burning.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.

~ Ravi Zacharias

Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!

~ Jarrid Wilson

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The hardest calling in our lives is to be truly ourselves.

~ J.r. Rim

To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

How we respond to moments of interruption determine who we become and how we spend our lives. But you can never fully live in your calling without going through struggle, fear, and failure. Our decisions in those moments determine the legacy we will live.

~ Chris Marlow

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.

~ Craig Groeschel

We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is to not know who we are intended to be or what we are supposed to serve in life.

~ Michael Meade

In God's kingdom, calling trumps credentials every time! God does not call the qualified. He qualifies the called. And the litmus test isn't experience or expertise. It's availability and teachability. If you are willing to go when God gives you a green light, He will take you to inaccessible places to do impossible things.

~ Mark Batterson

The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive