Quotes about Calling
I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
- John Piper
don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, because what the world needs are men who have come alive.
- John Eldredge
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
Considering myself called of my God to instruct the ignorant, comfort the sorrowful, confirm the weak, and rebuke the proud; by tongue and lively voice in these corrupt days rather than to compose books for the age to come, seeing that so much is written, and yet so little well observed, I decree to contain myself within the bounds of that vocation whereunto I found myself especially called.
- John Knox
Our goal must be, not to gain a divine knowledge of reality, but to obtain a human knowledge sufficient to carry out whatever calling God has given each of us.
- John Frame
Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men
- Elisabeth Elliot
His counsel or decree was the ground of His foreknowledge. So again in Rom. 8:29. That verse opens with the word "for," which tells us to look back to what immediately precedes. What, then, does the previous verse say? This: "All things work together for good to them...who are the called according to His purpose." Thus God's foreknowledge is based upon His "purpose" or decree (see Psa 2:7).
- AW Pink
In the first of these senses, neither Christ nor the Christian is supposed to be the world's servant. Jesus is obedient, not to the world but to the Father. He is the servant of God, not of men, and we too are called to be servants of God.
- Avery Dulles
The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.
- Clayton M. Christensen
When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.
- George Eliot
I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.
- Billy Graham
Sweet Love say Where, how and when What do you want of me? Yours I am, for You I was born: What do you want of me? . . .
- Teresa of Avila