But beware of this about callings: they may not lead us where we intended to go or even where we want to go. If we choose to follow, we may have to be willing to...

To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which...

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

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...

What Happens To A Man Is Less Significant Than What Happens Within Him.

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

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

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...

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn’t mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It’s a good calling, then, to speak a better story....

May the Spirit of God empower you with divine strength to accomplish your mission on earth.

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...

‘Who’s calling?’ ‘Don’t insult me like that,’ the voice says. I stop. Was I just insulting?

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...

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...

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

You were born into the world to fulfill a specific purpose in life. May you recognised your unique calling.

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...

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...

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”.

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

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.

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

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

Kujua nini kitatokea kesho, au kesho kutwa, au kujua jinsi usaili wako wa kazi utakavyokuwa, au ni maswali gani utakayoulizwa kwenye mtihani kwa mfano, kutarahisisha sana maisha yetu. ‘Madirisha’ madogo katika kipindi cha saa za...

Your Heart’s Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

Never give up praying! God loves to hear you call upon Him. He will answer you in His beautiful timing.

Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.

Books: open them. Your mind is calling for new horizons of knowledge and wonders.

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

You were born to lead people out of the darkness into light in the power of God. Dare to rise up to this calling! Never stand low for satan to mess up your destiny. You...

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

It is an exciting adventure, doing what you love.

Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self.

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

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.

You can accomplish far greater things when you depend on a divine power.

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.

When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.

I reject at once an idea which lingers in the mind of some modern people that cultural activities are in their own right spiritual and meritorious — as though scholars and poets were intrinsically more...

I won’t telephone him. I’ll never telephone him again as long as I live. He’ll rot in hell, before I’ll call him up. You don’t have to give me strength, God; I have it myself....

It’s important to understand that at every point of opposition to who we are or to what God has called us to do, we are presented with the options of either conforming and giving in,...

We are peculiar people called to fulfill a great mission.

I don’t tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of ’04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of...

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...

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

We had a whirlwind romance. That’s what happens when you date a tornado. Hold on, I have to stop tweeting for a bit because Kansas keeps calling.

God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

Seize every opportunity to fulfill your calling.

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.

In reality, is being sedentary a choice to run from our calling by not running after it?