Quotes about Calling

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

My father has been faithful to the calling that God gave him: that is, to preach the Gospel... He has presented Christ to every person that God has put before him.

I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened.

The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, "the will to be oneself."5

In God's family, success is defined as being faithful to his purpose and plan for your life.

What might change in your context if you were to define success not by the numbers but as radically doing God's will? What are the markers of success to which God is calling you and your team? What fears or anxieties are you aware of as you even consider such questions?

You Can't Do God's Work Your Way without Paying a Steep Price

When God called Israel out of Egypt, he affirmed they were sacred human beings made in his image. He then showed them how to live according to their God-given nature. In effect, God said, "It may feel awkward at first, but as a fish is created to live in water, I created you to live according to this design.

Why does God call people to be artists? Because he is an Artist, and we are made in his image. When we first meet the God of the Bible, he is busy making things and calling them good. Thus it is only natural for him to take some of the people that he has made, call them to be artists, and hold them to an aesthetic standard.

If anything, things are even more difficult for Christian artists. Some churches do not consider art a serious way to serve God. Others deny that Christians in the arts have a legitimate calling. As a result, Christian artists often feel like they have to justify their existence. Rather than providing a community of support, some churches surround them with a climate of suspicion.

Artists are called and gifted-personally, by name-to write, paint, sing, play, and dance to the glory of God.