Quotes about Calling

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in new ways.

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

How many of us are tested in that way, asked to risk careers we've long dreamed of in the service of some greater good?

So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.

Life is a mission and not a career.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life…. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

I was lucky - I found what I love to do early in life.

We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.

Every true gospel vocation is a resurrection vocation that arrives after a passage through the belly of the fish. All "word of God" vocations are thus formed. There can be no authentic vocation that is not shaped by passage through some such interior.