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From the moment of your birth, you have a calling
— Sunday Adelaja
If a person does not fulfill his calling he will lose purpose in life
— Sunday Adelaja
The only calling we have is to “GO
— Sunday Adelaja
You are responsible for your calling and you must give account
— Sunday Adelaja
Every gift, talent and every calling that you have from God has been given to you because somebody needs it
— Sunday Adelaja
No one can fulfill the calling to extend the reign of love alone
— Sunday Adelaja
God expects fruits from every calling, every talent and every gift
— Sunday Adelaja
You and your calling are inseparable
— Sunday Adelaja
You can't fulfill your calling inside your comfort zone.
— Johnathan Key
God requires from you the fulfillment of your calling
— Sunday Adelaja
Do what you were called to do and guard your calling
— Sunday Adelaja
Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it’s up to us to keep it burning.
— S. Kelley Harrell, Life Betwixt: Essays on Allies in the Everyday and Shamanism Among
The reason you were born is for a purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.
— Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives
Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!
— Jarrid Wilson, Jesus Swagger: Break Free from Poser Christianity
If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The hardest calling in our lives is to be truly ourselves.
— J.R. Rim
To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
How we respond to moments of interruption determine who we become and how we spend our lives. But you can never fully live in your calling without going through struggle, fear, and failure. Our decisions in those moments determine the legacy we will live.
— Chris Marlow, Doing Good Is Simple: Making a Difference Right Where You Are
If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is to not know who we are intended to be or what we are supposed to serve in life.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
In God's kingdom, calling trumps credentials every time! God does not call the qualified. He qualifies the called. And the litmus test isn't experience or expertise. It's availability and teachability. If you are willing to go when God gives you a green light, He will take you to inaccessible places to do impossible things.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
...we find our vocations not by focusing on ourselves, but by focusing on others.
— Jeff Goins
We must wake up. If we are going to find our callings, we must live intentionally and audaciously. And we must be generous. This choice is not an easy one, and it doesn't come naturally, but it's how we were meant to live. It's the only way - I'm quite convinced of this - that we can find the satisfaction we've been searching for, the lives we've been dreaming of. And although there are legitimate health, business, and psychological benefits to generous living, the most important one is this: generosity gives your life meaning.
— Jeff Goins
To assume that I can even begin to chart a ‘straight’ path is probably the best way I can take myself ‘straight’ to the very place I don’t want to go.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the ‘possible’ is never bound by the ‘probable,’ and instead we’ve dutifully heeded the god of fear that incessantly says the ‘possible’ is anything but ‘probable.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View from the Front Porch: Encounters with Life and Jesus
The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You'd been in Sunday school long enough to know how the story goes: the voice of God comes down from the sky and asks you to go where you don't want to go, to do what you don't want to do. And you have to do it anyway.
— Addie Zierman, When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over
At its best, this is my calling. At its worst, it is a mad compulsion that I just can’t shake.
— Zoe Klein
Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler
— Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor
The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the centre of the silent Word.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
And we need Christians who don’t make others feel guilty (and don’t feel guilty themselves) when one of us follows a different passion than another. I read and write a lot. That’s what I do well. But that doesn’t mean anyone should feel guilty for not reading and writing as much as I do. You have your own gifts and calling. We have to be okay with other Christians doing certain good things better and more often than we do.
— Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that has a range of medical issues and is taking potent prescription drugs being sent to out to them.
— Steven Magee
God gives much grace for great work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes, when you attempt to run away from your true calling, all roads will conspire to lead you back to where you came from.
— Jorge P. Guerrero
God gives grace for good work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you are going to find work worth doing - a vocation to fulfill and challenge you - you will have to encounter a reality bigger than yourself. It may not be what others say it should be or what you think, but it will come if you are looking for it... At times, the work you're called to do will be hard and confusing, but if you press in, you will see the purpose behind the pain. You will see how the whole experience is causing you to grow. And you will thank God for the whole journey.
— Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life
I pray for grace, strength and wisdom to faithfully fulfill my calling in due time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Passion does not translate easily into good income.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
There comes a time when even the thing you love betrays you...you have to know when it's time to give it up, I suppose. Doesn't mean you love it any less, of course. Just means it's time to move on. When you can't agree with the decisions that bind you, then you have to take your talents elsewhere.
— Siri Mitchell, Like a Flower in Bloom
Calling connects with passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Don't sweat the small stuff" doesn't work with parenting small children. They only work in small stuff. They aren't making company decisions. They are deciding whether to use a crayon on the wall. – Bill Klein
— The Little Couple
Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Someday," Joseph said to his granddaughter, "someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something happens and we have to respond.
— Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers
When there is shortage of anointing, you will begin to doubt your calling
— Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Only God can make the common sacred.
— Beth Moore, To Live Is Christ
it is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
We are anointed for our assignment on earth because the anointed King lives in us--He is fulfilling His will through us.
— E.N. Supen
I will forsake everything to fulfill the Fathers calling.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.
— David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
What liberated our souls, we live to serve.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Liberation of sacred souls connects to specific service.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
I used to fight back the inner resistance within me before when for a while I thought this keeps me from living the life I was born to enjoy. But then I realized that this "madness" inside me is not at all a destructive force but a raging "storm" which needs to come out for me to fully discover my potential. This wondrous "storm" helped me to unravel the secrets of my being - of my purpose and true calling. Now, I come to embrace wholeheartedly who I am and why I was born." - "My Storm", Author/Poet Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo
— Elizabeth E. Castillo
As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal
— H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.
— Jacob Grimm, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.
— Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?
— David Platt, Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie
— H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.
— Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned – it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned – and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.
— Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice
— Sunday Adelaja
The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.
— Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.
— Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice for the truth
— Sunday Adelaja
When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.
— David Halberstam, Firehouse
A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
I’m fulfilling my calling when I seek to uphold righteousness in all spheres of life
— Sunday Adelaja
The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling.
— Sunday Adelaja
I’m fulfilling my calling no matter what is happening and against whom
— Sunday Adelaja
The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling
— Sunday Adelaja
He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.
— David Halberstam, Firehouse
What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
I choose me bristles with prideYes, I doA broom for the shaftAnd a broom for the flumeThough I'm covered with soot From me 'ead to me toesA sweep knows 'e's welcomeWherever 'e goes
— Richard M. Sherman, Chim Chim Cher-Ee
Calling is connection: Uncovering our calling is a deliberate choice to serve others and to make a difference in the world. Our calling is made manifest in service to others...it is paradoxical but true; we are more likely to receive the meaning and fulfillment we seek when we enable others to achieve the meaning and fulfillment they seek, as well.
— David Shapiro, Work Reimagined: Uncover Your Calling
The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
You’re actually fulfilling your calling by going to work and giving your best.
— Sunday Adelaja
The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.
— Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction
When you have to make a choice, think of the impact your decision may make on your calling
— Sunday Adelaja
We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
I cannot tarry longer.The sea that calls all things unto her calls me
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
God hasn't called you to walk in someone else's shoes (purpose). He wants you to walk in the shoes that fit you, for which He made you. You aren't going to succeed walking in another woman's shoes.
— Beth Moore Jones
The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.
— Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
God can communicate to us through powerful feelings. They have an energy that impels us to action. They grip our mind and will not let us go. What is calling you? What has the voice of God been whispering to you through the desires of your heart? To what are you drawn and constantly compelled to do? It could be that God is opening the eyes of your heart to see something that no one else is seeing, and to do something that others aren’t doing. If that is true, then move forward and let God worry about the how.
— Tom Payne, A Guide to God's Perplexing Path
You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.
— Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
Our calling is connected to our area of dominion.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is a special privilege and calling to live in two millenniums.
— Sunday Adelaja
If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
Life and calling are founded on relationships with other people.
— Sunday Adelaja
...we have a high calling etched into our bones and written on our hearts. God wants to engage us...and deliver us into a life He has dreamed for us... We were made to explore.
— Richard Foth, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
Cinderella was made for more than sweeping the floor.
— Beth Moore Jones, The Cinderella Story: The Power of Shoes
With every calling comes the anointing you need to be able to stand firm in the situations that you will have to face
— Sunday Adelaja
I felt I had a calling in my life to be in full-time ministry, and although I was very successful in the insurance business, earning a very large six-figure income, I gave notice to my company and sold out in January 2007 to go into the ministry full-time.
— Michael Richard Stosic, Thirty-Nine Days
We are chosen by God, it was not by coincidence. We have been accorded the dignity of kingship and we are called to take the Kingdom to the world. The destiny of millions of people depends on us.
— Sunday Adelaja
Our calling is to exalt the name of the Lord above every other name. God has translated us into His Kingdom and revealed to us the way to greatness so that we can glorify Him.
— Sunday Adelaja
Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.
— Sunday Adelaja
Nothing is as important as your calling and purpose in life.
— Sunday Adelaja
All professions have some element of theater to them.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?
— Matt      Chandler, Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change
We are never short on opportunities to answer the call to assist the widows, support the homeless, stand up for justice and to preach Christ crucified and resurrected. That is the true calling of every believer.
— Andrena Sawyer
Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.
— Charles W. Colson
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high
— Sunday Adelaja
We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling.
— Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate to achieve either? And how long will it take me to realize that if I doggedly refuse to pass by God, my inadequacy is instantly irrelevant and I have in actuality begun to achieve these very things.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don't differentiate between "This is a job" and "This is what I'm doing for fun." It's all simultaneous.
— Spike Jonze
If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success.
— Douglas Copeland
The curse of the fall didn't affect only manual work, as we often seem to think. Excessive ambiguity that prevent us from figuring out how to navigate is really a form of confusion. Overload is one of the forms that frustration takes. The inordinate challenges we face in knowledge work can be traced to the fall just as much as the challenges in manual work. Send it especially lies behind the villain of lack of fulfillment. The reason we lack fulfillment is because we aren't fulfilling our true purpose, that is because we have sinned and deviated from God's path.
— Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
We feel unfulfilled when there is a gap between what is most important to us, the realm of personal leadership, and what we are actually doing with our time, the realm of personal management. You are satisfied with your day when there is a match between what you value and how you spend your time.
— Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.
— Davis Bunn
Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is the doing of your calling that attracts the support of the God of the Universe. When I stepped into that space, the wind in my life changed direction. The doing rallied the Heavens. It was the voice of my faith. If you don’t do out of your being, you aren’t truly showing up. Maybe that’s what’s meant by faith without works is dead. Without it, there are no smoke signals going up to attract the people, resources or opportunities.
— Suzette R. Hinton
Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.
— Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priesthood meant a call from the bishop, not necessarily a call from God. And I heard the Bishop of Rome himself call you to be that which you have now become by ordination and consecration.
— Walter M. Miller Jr., Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
Every step you take, every breath, every conversation, your calling is center stage. There is no longer a piece here and a piece there, but there is wholeness. The sound of your voice and the sound of your life have come together.
— Suzette R. Hinton
Authenticity distinguishes between a hobby and a calling. A hobby is something you like to do when you can. A calling is something that won’t wait. There is a different sound to one versus the other. Your hobby brings you joy but it is not a priority. Your calling is impolite and disruptive and doesn’t care whether it’s a good time or not.
— Suzette R. Hinton
Meanwhile, on Earth, a completely different esoteric plane of existence, Father Chuck awoke with a jolt. This time he was sure of it. Oh dear, he’d heard the Voice of God.What had the Good Lord said? Trembling, the little priest smoothed down his mustache. He was not the right man for a calling. Not the right man at all.
— E.A.A. Wilson, Ascension Denied
I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.
— Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
I think that’s what we are all meant to do, all we can do, with the gifts we have been given, be they experiences or talents. Those gifts are waiting to be used to touch others’ lives, as we patiently listen for and obediently follow the direction to which God is calling us. Because that’s what you do with gifts, you give them away.
— Ryan J. Pemberton, Called: My Journey to C. S. Lewis's House and Back Again
A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.
— Martin Luther
Use the information you’ve been given as an individual, but NEVER let what you’ve heard or read or experienced in the past prevent you from answering the call on your life. You are responsible for your life. That includes the voice inside you and everything it calls you to do. Don’t ignore that voice to follow rules that don’t fit. When a jacket doesn’t fit anymore, it’s time to donate it. Same principle applies for rules which no longer serve you. You don’t have to curse the rules or condemn them. In fact, there might be someone else who would benefit from them at the exact moment you no longer need them. Just step into all that you can be and all that you can do.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
The doctor in Murare is old - old for anybody. He is especially old for a doctor and especially old for an African. But he doesn´t have the luxury of retirement to look forward to. There aren´t enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don´t do it for the money or because thy want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breath or eat or love. They can´t stop. As long as they are alive, they will never not be a doctor. They can be old, or alcoholic or burnt-out, but they will always be a doctor.
— Alexandra Fuller
It is an exciting adventure, doing what you love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true self.
— Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.
— Geoff Dyer, Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
While you might think the choices that leave no regrets behind are the minimal ones and the casual ones and the safe ones, I believe the opposite is true. Regret happens when we are still left with “what if.” Regret is the result of leaving a story within you still untold, a song inside of you never sung, a touch unique to your personhood that never was felt by another. When you lay everything on the line because you believe that much that the life you have been given is the utmost calling to be answered, you don’t regret it.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
The "layman" need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything. Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act.
— A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.
— Winston S. Churchill
We are peculiar people called to fulfill a great mission.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Who's calling?""Don't insult me like that," the voice says.I stop. Was I just insulting?
— Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape
It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.
— Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
A call to duty, a call for service.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.
— Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
Purpose declares that the trajectory of my existence and the course of human history were intentionally set to collide at this precise moment in time because what I have to offer human history is desperately needed at this precise time.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons
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
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
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 J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
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.
I am unique.I have mission.I have a calling.I will fulfill my highest potential and 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
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
You were born into the world to fulfill a specific purpose in life. May you recognised your unique calling.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God does not choose people because of their ability, but because of their availability.
— Brother Andrew
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 J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
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
We live our days in the microscopic, but something within us calls us to dream in the cosmic – every one of us. And within us exists those two worlds: the world as it is and the world as we think it ought to be.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
You are here on earth to fulfill a specific purpose.May you recognised your calling.
— Laillah Gifty Akita
Live up to your highest calling on earth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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.
Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
— John C. Maxwell
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.
A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.
— Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
Not sorry, not calling, not cryingAll will pass like smoke of white apple treesSeized by the gold of autumn,I will no longer be young.
— Sergei Yesenin
Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.
— Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.
— Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing.We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.
— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.
— Lysa TerKeurst, What Happens When Women Say Yes to God: Experiencing Life in Extraordinary Ways
Listening to intuition is similar to watching wind wiggle a pond. Allow the ripples to move you where you need to be.
— Soul Dancer, Pay Me What I'm Worth
One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.
— Elizabeth George, Breaking the Worry Habit...Forever!: God's Plan for Lasting Peace of Mind
Follow your passion; Do not get married to it, though.
— Ashok  Kallarakkal
Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and association. Calling resists polarization by requiring an attitude toward, and action in, society that is inevitably transforming because it is constantly engaged. Grand Christian movements will rise and fall. Grand campaigns will be mounted and grand coalitions assembled. But all together such coordinated efforts will never match the influence of untold numbers of followers of Christ living out their callings faithfully across the vastness and complexity of modern society.
— Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
Sometimes your talent can steer you away from your passion.
— Fawn Weaver, Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage
Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling hadone all Time to live in! I should be fifty Years aBarrister, fifty a Physician, fifty a Clergyman, fifty aSoldier! Aye, and fifty a Thief, and fifty a Judge! AllRoads are fine Roads, beloved Sister, none more thananother, so that with one Life to spend I am a Manbare-bumm'd at Taylors with Cash for but one pair ofBreeches, or a Scholar at Brookstalls with Money for asingle Book: to choose ten were no Trouble; to choose one,impossible! All Trades, all Crafts, all Professions arewondrous, but none is finer than the rest together. Icannot choose, sweet Anna: twixt Stools my Breech fallethto the Ground!
— John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor
What makes your heart leap?
— Jonas Salk
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
Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.
— Oliver Cromwell, Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Volume Two
Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart
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 doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our daily bread by means of the farmer the banker, the cooks, And the lady at the check-out counter. He creates new life – the most amazing miracle of all – by means of mothers and fathers. He protects us by means of the police officers, firemen, and our military. He creates. Through artists. He heals by working through doctors, nurses, and others whom He has gifted, equipped, and called to the medical professions.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do
— John Geddes
When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world.
— Roland H. Bainton
What Happens To A Man Is Less Significant Than What Happens Within Him.
— Louis L. Mann
God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. 
— E.M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer
You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit first.
— Marianne Williamson, Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles
Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?
— Nicole Richie, Priceless
Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.
— Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays
...you don't need a calling to minister love...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
She handled it (her trade) with all the grace that belongs to mastery.
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In the Blackness" in the poetry collection "Terra Affirmative".
— Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative
The voice of love calls to you, my son.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars
Miss Fields," said a servant, stepping into the room and closing the door, "There is a visitor for you. Are you in?"Clare blinked. "Yes, obviously.""Ah. Miss Fields, I should advise -- you may be in without being 'in', if you prefer," he said, offering her a tray. There was a calling card on it; Arthur Conan Doyle, Edinburgh.
— Sam Starbuck, The Dead Isle
Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat."What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?""All of them at once," said Bilbo. "And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain...."Good morning!" he said at last. "We don't want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water." By this he meant that the conversation was at an end."What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
— Orson Welles
Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Obsessions are the only things that matter.
— Patricia Highsmith
Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word... Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.
— Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Band 11
but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me."  As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
— Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
Not everything that can be counted counts.Not everything that counts can be counted.
— William Bruce  Cameron
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.
— Alan W. Watts