Quotes about Calling
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You have to embark on your own quest to discover why you are on this planet, what makes you get out of bed in the morning, and what you uniquely contribute to the world.
- Danny Silk
Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.
- Frederick Buechner
You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.
- Les Brown
Life is a mission, not a career.
- Stephen Covey
Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.
- Thomas Merton
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
- Aristotle
Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.
- JI Packer
and though we living in a civilized country where Christianity is protected by law, are not called to suffer these things while we continue here, yet I question whether all are justified in staying here, while so many are perishing without means of grace in other lands.
- William Carey
What openings of providence do we wait for? We can neither expect to be transported into the heathen world without ordinary means, nor to be endowed with the gift of tongues, &c. when we arrive there. These would not be providential interpositions, but miraculous ones. Where a command exists nothing can be necessary to render it binding but a removal of those obstacles which render obedience impossible, and these are removed already.
- William Carey
Observe, farther, how the same doctrine is taught by St. Peter: "As He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation." [1 Pet. i. 15]
- William Law
I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
- David Brainerd