Quotes about Calling
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.
- Hudson Taylor
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
- David Brainerd
To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one's life.
- Mike Bickle
Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.
- Leonard Ravenhill
You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved."
- Henri Nouwen
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
- Rick Warren
Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
- John Donne
The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.
- Myles Munroe
Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it
- Myles Munroe
God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God.
- Francis Chan
That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
- Francis Schaeffer