Quotes about Calling
Between this day and the next you will give your life to something. The decision on what that will be will shape your destiny.
— Rick Warren
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
— Thomas Jefferson
When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.
— Tim LaHaye
I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.
— John Maxwell
I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.
— John Maxwell
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