Quotes about Calling

If you are breathing, you are still alive. If you are alive, then you are still here, physically, on this planet. If you are still here, then you have not completed what you were put on earth to do. If you have not completed what you were put on earth to do … that means your very purpose has not yet been fulfilled. If your purpose has not yet been fulfilled, then the most important part of your life has not yet been lived.

If you are "seeking first" his kingdom where you are, then where you are is where he has positioned you.

Ministry makes people's faith bigger. If you want to increase someone's confidence in God, put him in a ministry position before he feels fully equipped.

God had called and equipped David to lead. But it took an act of courage for that call to be recognized by the public.

I don't know about you, but there have been plenty of times when I have driven home from a hospital visit wondering why they let me be the pastor.

Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

I'm going to France, I'm going to Germany, and I'm going to go wherever God sends me and gives me the strength.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.