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Quotes about Calling

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.
- Rick Warren
A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions.
- Robin Sharma
The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn't devote his life to it of his own free will.
- Steven Pressfield
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
- Wendell Berry
If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.
- Charles Hodge
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
- Pope John Paul II
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
- Charles Spurgeon
Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.
- Max Lucado
His purpose was not just to make us safe but to make us saints.
- Peter Kreeft