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Quotes about Calling

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it's needed most?
- David Platt
The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.
- Martin Luther
When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.
- Joel Osteen
When God calls people to do something, their initial response is almost always fear. If there is a challenge in front of you, a course of action that could cause you to grow and that would be helpful to people around you, but you find yourself scared about it, there's a real good chance that God is in that challenge.
- John Ortberg
Isa. xliii. 22, "Thou hast not called upon me, thou hast been weary of me.
- John Owen
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
- Catherine of Siena
I remind mothers everywhere of the sanctity of your calling. No other can adequately take your place. No responsibility is greater, no obligation more binding than that you rear in love and peace and integrity those whom you have brought into the world.
- Gordon Hinckley
Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!
- Mark Batterson
I could never describe it to anyone how I knew, but there was no mistaking it. One moment, I was walking along undecided - and the next moment, I knew that it was God's will for me to go to America. I don't think I could describe it any more accurately.
- Peter Marshall
I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.
- Donald Miller
A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.
- David Jeremiah