Calling Quotes

The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also wi...

You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you...

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole...

I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it...

I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The ...

God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The ...

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness...

I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find caree...

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, cal...

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judg...

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put her...

Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen...

Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are...

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priest...

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s...

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out ...

After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the...

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myse...

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not le...

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any c...

He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien...

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim direc...

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is...

The only Christian work is good work well done.

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I...

Vocation” comes from the Latin vocare (to call) and means the work a man is called to by God.There a...

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be ...

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of t...

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pur...

She handled it (her trade) with all the grace that belongs to mastery.

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each ot...

Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling hadone all Time to live in! I should be fifty Ye...

What makes your heart leap?