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Quotes about Calling

To realise one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.
- Paulo Coelho
We all need to be aware of our personal calling. What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend.
- Paulo Coelho
To all of us comes that moment in life when we are literally tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to ourselves and our talents. What a pity if that moment finds us unprepared.
- Winston Churchill
A mission to Rangoon we had been accustomed to regard with feelings of horror. But it was now brought to a point. We must either venture there or be sent to Europe.
- Adoniram Judson
Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.
- Leland Ryken
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."
- Madeleine L'Engle
The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.
- Oprah Winfrey
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
- Oswald Chambers
One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.
- Oswald Chambers