Calling Quotes

If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

...we find our vocations not by focusing on ourselves, but by focusing on others.

~ Jeff Goins

We must wake up. If we are going to find our callings, we must live intentionally and audaciously. And we must be generous. This choice is not an easy one, and it doesn't come naturally, but it's how we were meant to live. It's the only way - I'm quite convinced of this - that we can find the satisfaction we've been searching for, the lives we've been dreaming of. And although there are legitimate health, business, and psychological benefits to generous living, the most important one is this: generosity gives your life meaning.

~ Jeff Goins

To assume that I can even begin to chart a ‘straight’ path is probably the best way I can take myself ‘straight’ to the very place I don’t want to go.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the ‘possible’ is never bound by the ‘probable,’ and instead we’ve dutifully heeded the god of fear that incessantly says the ‘possible’ is anything but ‘probable.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You'd been in Sunday school long enough to know how the story goes: the voice of God comes down from the sky and asks you to go where you don't want to go, to do what you don't want to do. And you have to do it anyway.

~ Addie Zierman

At its best, this is my calling. At its worst, it is a mad compulsion that I just can’t shake.

~ Zoe Klein

Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler

~ Terry Goodkind

The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the centre of the silent Word.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

And we need Christians who don’t make others feel guilty (and don’t feel guilty themselves) when one of us follows a different passion than another. I read and write a lot. That’s what I do well. But that doesn’t mean anyone should feel guilty for not reading and writing as much as I do. You have your own gifts and calling. We have to be okay with other Christians doing certain good things better and more often than we do.

~ Kevin Deyoung

The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that has a range of medical issues and is taking potent prescription drugs being sent to out to them.

~ Steven Magee

God gives much grace for great work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God gives grace for good work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you are going to find work worth doing - a vocation to fulfill and challenge you - you will have to encounter a reality bigger than yourself. It may not be what others say it should be or what you think, but it will come if you are looking for it... At times, the work you're called to do will be hard and confusing, but if you press in, you will see the purpose behind the pain. You will see how the whole experience is causing you to grow. And you will thank God for the whole journey.

~ Jeff Goins

I pray for grace, strength and wisdom to faithfully fulfill my calling in due time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

~ Philip Zaleski

There comes a time when even the thing you love betrays you...you have to know when it's time to give it up, I suppose. Doesn't mean you love it any less, of course. Just means it's time to move on. When you can't agree with the decisions that bind you, then you have to take your talents elsewhere.

~ Siri Mitchell

Calling connects with passion.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Don't sweat the small stuff doesn't work with parenting small children. They only work in small stuff. They aren't making company decisions. They are deciding whether to use a crayon on the wall. – Bill Klein

~ The Little Couple

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

~ Harold Bloom

When there is shortage of anointing, you will begin to doubt your calling

~ Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.

~ David Pietrusza

Only God can make the common sacred.

~ Beth Moore

it is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We are anointed for our assignment on earth because the anointed King lives in us--He is fulfilling His will through us.

~ E.n. Supen

I will forsake everything to fulfill the Fathers calling.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.

~ David Talbot

He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.

~ Charles Dickens

What liberated our souls, we live to serve.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Liberation of sacred souls connects to specific service.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville

~ George F. Will

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

~ Philip Zaleski

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

~ Paul C. Nagel

One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we find to do day by day.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

~ Richard Brookhiser

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

~ Ron Suskind

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

~ Paul C. Nagel

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

~ Paul C. Nagel