Calling Quotes

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

~ H.w. Brands

The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.

~ Jacob Grimm

Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.

~ Davis Miller

The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

~ George F. Will

What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?

~ David Platt

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

~ H.w. Brands

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

~ Dan Jones

People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned – it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned – and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

~ Charles Murray

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

~ Charles Murray

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

~ Jeffrey Toobin

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

~ David Halberstam

A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling

~ Sunday Adelaja

He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.

~ David Halberstam

What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I choose me bristles with prideYes, I doA broom for the shaftAnd a broom for the flumeThough I'm covered with soot From me 'ead to me toesA sweep knows 'e's welcomeWherever 'e goes

~ Richard M. Sherman

Calling is connection: Uncovering our calling is a deliberate choice to serve others and to make a difference in the world. Our calling is made manifest in service to others...it is paradoxical but true; we are more likely to receive the meaning and fulfillment we seek when we enable others to achieve the meaning and fulfillment they seek, as well.

~ David Shapiro

The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The author says the pastor who does not pray is a mere official who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You’re actually fulfilling your calling by going to work and giving your best.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.

~ Karl Barth

When you have to make a choice, think of the impact your decision may make on your calling

~ Sunday Adelaja

I cannot tarry longer.The sea that calls all things unto her calls me

~ Kahlil Gibran

God hasn't called you to walk in someone else's shoes (purpose). He wants you to walk in the shoes that fit you, for which He made you. You aren't going to succeed walking in another woman's shoes.

~ Beth Moore Jones

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

~ Tom Clancy

God can communicate to us through powerful feelings. They have an energy that impels us to action. They grip our mind and will not let us go. What is calling you? What has the voice of God been whispering to you through the desires of your heart? To what are you drawn and constantly compelled to do? It could be that God is opening the eyes of your heart to see something that no one else is seeing, and to do something that others aren’t doing. If that is true, then move forward and let God worry about the how.

~ Tom Payne

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

~ Tom Clancy

Our calling is connected to our area of dominion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

~ Fennel Hudson

...we have a high calling etched into our bones and written on our hearts. God wants to engage us...and deliver us into a life He has dreamed for us... We were made to explore.

~ Richard Foth

Cinderella was made for more than sweeping the floor.

~ Beth Moore Jones

I felt I had a calling in my life to be in full-time ministry, and although I was very successful in the insurance business, earning a very large six-figure income, I gave notice to my company and sold out in January 2007 to go into the ministry full-time.

~ Michael Richard Stosic

Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Nothing is as important as your calling and purpose in life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

All professions have some element of theater to them.

~ David Halberstam

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

~ David Halberstam

We are never short on opportunities to answer the call to assist the widows, support the homeless, stand up for justice and to preach Christ crucified and resurrected. That is the true calling of every believer.

~ Andrena Sawyer