Calling Quotes

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

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

God beckons me to exhilarating adventures that are without number, beyond all conceivable boundaries, and effortlessly eclipse the furthest reaches of my imagination, all while I sit languishing in stifling adventures of my own limited creation.

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.

My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations.

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.

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

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

As a Priest got a calling to preach, you also got a calling to do whatever you do, so do it with passion and only God can stop your calling.

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

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.

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.

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

Don't differentiate between "This is a job" and "This is what I'm doing for fun." It's all simultaneous.

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.

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

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

Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

The only Christian work is good work well done.