Quotes about Calling

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. 'Lord, send me!'

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

A career may end with retirement and lots of "toys." A calling isn't over until the day you die.

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

Go, send, or disobey.

God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn't just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world.

The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

It is only a matter of time till the reality of the rest of the world comes home. And all the while we are called by Christ to go to them, love them, sacrifice for them, bring the gospel to them. The Great Commission is not child's play. It is costly. Very costly.

Jesus calls for violence against our own lust because he loves our true and lasting joy.