Quotes about Calling
He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in whom I will display My glory.”
— Isaiah 49:3
For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
— Isaiah 54:6
“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
— Isaiah 65:1
The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
— Jeremiah 1:4
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
— Jeremiah 1:5
“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
— Jeremiah 1:6
But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.
— Jeremiah 1:7
Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
— Jeremiah 1:9
Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
— Jeremiah 3:4
If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
— Jeremiah 20:9
Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
— Jeremiah 32:6
I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
— Lamentations 3:55