Quotes about Calling

We need preachers. We need men who believe that this task and women who believe that this task is so great that not all the strategies in the world can make one soul converted.

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.

Many are called to do great things, but they do not fulfill those callings because they do not give themselves to the little things.

If we are alive for these times then we were made for them.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

I never have been involved in politics.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse—until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted—which we feel we are sent into the world to do—what a blessing it is and what fullness of joy it holds.