Quotes about Calling

There is an entire generation who was too young to read 'The Purpose Driven Life' 10 years ago but are now asking the critical question, 'What on earth am I here for?'

No life is messier than one in ministry

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

You're gifted to do something.

Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work that you need most to do and the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement, but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement.

To find our calling is to find the intersection between our own deep gladness and the world's deep hunger.