Quotes about Calling
A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
- Tony Campolo
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.
- Edith Stein
Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls
- William Booth
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
- John Calvin
Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.
- Leonard Ravenhill
A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
- John Eldredge
When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.
- Alan Redpath
To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
- G Campbell Morgan
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
- William Barclay
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.
- Oswald Chambers