Calling Quotes

“Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.”
― Emmet Fox, Power Through Constructive Thinking

“A person's true identity can often be difficult to discern, even to themselves, causing one to question their character, their calling, their very existence. For most, time gives clarity, but for others, these questions remained unanswered for an identity can not be fully defined when it is a guarded secret.”
― Emily Thorne

“Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.”
― Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

“To live out God’s plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself…and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.”
― Elizabeth George

“Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.”
― Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was great in his vocation, buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.”
― Voltaire

“I am unique.
I have mission.
I have a calling.
I will fulfill my highest potential and calling.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The only Christian work is good work well done.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Why Work?: Discovering Real Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work. A Christian Perspective.

“There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Why Work?: Discovering Real Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work. A Christian Perspective.

“You were born into the world to fulfill a specific purpose in life. May you recognised your unique calling.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Your calling is to be faithful to God where you are, and in doing this all work is sacred, spiritual, and worthy of your full attention and energy. When you get to work, you are not entering a secular environment as much as you are bringing the sacred into the world by following Christ wherever you are.”
― Joe Thorn, Note to Self: The Discipline of Preaching to Yourself

“the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do”
― john j geddes

“Find what you love to do, what you're good at and passionate about and then dedicate your entire life to working hard at it. I wil say it again. Work hard. I mean that. Even if you're not sure where that work will lead, even if it is underappreciated or undervalued. Do it because the satisfaction, pride, and sense of self that comes from a job well done; from being the very best at what you do; from knowing that you did this, will be your ulltimate weapon and our greatest shield in a life that will often test you. One day destiny may conspire to take everything away from you, but it can never take away the abilities you have cultivated. As I am sure your grandfather will tell you, your winning lottery ticket is your mind.”
― Amy Mowafi, Fe-mail 2

“Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God’s highest callings upon your life.”
― Elizabeth George

“It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church—dramatically and poignantly—the nature of its heart and mission.”
― Gary Smith, Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

“The point of the calling was, quite simply, that it was appointed by God to serve neighbors. If along the way some self-fulfillment came as well, there was nothing wrong with that, but it was hardly the point of the calling.”
― Gilbert Meilaender, Friendship: Philosophy

“Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Whether we want to admit it or not, we are dependent on other pray-ers. In Matthew 9:38 Jesus said, "Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into His harvest." Am I a laborer because someone, some time, some place, obeyed Jesus' command and prayed that God would send forth a laborer to the field in which I'm working? This is a humbling thought, and removes all the ego and pride about my ministry, my calling. Because somebody prayed, did I CHANGE into God's laborer?”
― Evelyn Christenson

“What Happens To A Man Is Less Significant Than What Happens Within Him.”
― Louis L. Mann

“At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Why Work?: Discovering Real Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work. A Christian Perspective.

“The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?".”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“You don't need to know why God sent you to the earth before you say "yes" to what He sent you for! He wants you to prosper and he is the only one who knows "how?"!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The striking thing is that the transatlantic divergence in working patterns has coincided almost exactly with a comparable convergence in religiosity. Europeans not only work less; they also pray less – and believe less.”
― Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest

“Life is calling you. The other life. The analogue life. The real. Nature is calling you. And people too. Wondrous royal souls are waiting to meet, appreciate and experience you.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Live up to your highest calling on earth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away! Never be impressed by calling attentions that tell you to give up! Insist, Resist and Persist to the end!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“You are here on earth to fulfill a specific purpose.
May you recognised your calling.”
― Laillah Gifty Akita