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The Savior will help you do what He has called you to do, be it for a time as a worker in the Church or forever as a parent. You may pray for help enough to do the work and know that it will come.
- Henry B. Eyring
The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.
- Pope Benedict XVI
I have called each of My children to a different path, distinctly designed for that one. Do not let anyone convince you that his path is the only right way. And be careful not to extol your path as superior to another's way. What I require of you is to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Me—wherever I lead.
- Sarah Young
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. EPHESIANS 4 : 1 — 6
- Sarah Young
Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade—not outside it. Whatever we are called to "do" is not a "job" but a sacred vocation.
- Scot McKnight
hold it, then, as an axiom — or else I'd stop writing right now — that our calling is to follow Jesus in our context rather than to retrieve and re-create his context in our world. What
- Scot McKnight
those called will learn to trust God.
- Scot McKnight
In the potent words of Dorothy Sayers, our vocation is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
- Scot McKnight
Let your life speak.
- Scot McKnight
There is no kingdom mission apart from submitting to Jesus as King and calling others to surrender before King Jesus.
- Scot McKnight
Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.
- Scot McKnight
The only thing that "exploits your gifts" or that taxes you to the limits or that fills your soul or that challenges you to live the dream the most is following Jesus. Some days you may do pretty well; other days you may flub up.
- Scot McKnight