Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world.

The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.

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

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...

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

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.

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...

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.

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...

I have a spiritual journey on earth.Lord anoint and empower me to accomplish my great task on earth.

You must depend on higher power to fulfill your mission in tough journey.

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

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

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...

You are part of divine purpose. You have a divine power within you.

This is my life.This is my calling.

Who am I?What is my mission?

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

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.

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, or standing our ground and becoming stronger in who God has made us to be

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...

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

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.

A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.

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...

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.

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...

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.

If I have found my journey to be a maddening tangle of wandering ‘rabbit-trails,’ a labyrinth of incessantly circular passages to nowhere and back, and a plethora of assorted ‘dead-ends’ fraudulently disguised as paths of great promise, it can only be because I have mindlessly exchanged God’s compass for mine. Therefore, it would appear that...

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

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them.Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall...

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...

Follow your passion; Do not get married to it, though.

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.

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...

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

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

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.

If your boss asks you to do a task… You’ll stay late for work to make sure it’s done. You’ll be confident that your boss wouldn’t have asked you if he/she didn’t trust that you could do it. You wouldn’t allow anyone or anything to distract you. No matter how hard it is, it’s not...

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

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

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...

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

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.

…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.

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Listening to intuition is similar to watching wind wiggle a pond. Allow the ripples to move you where you need to be.

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 your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don’t wake up at 32...