Quotes about Calling

If you'll follow Christ's commands, you'll follow Christ straight to your calling and you'll have developed the strength, grit, and stability along the way to handle it.

I've spent much of my ministry apologizing to people for what appears to be a rather odd show of taste on the part of the One who called me. I have no idea why in this world God has risked His name on someone like me. I will never comprehend such grace and stubbornness of will to teach a woman with a penchant for ditches how to walk a higher path.

We're getting by but getting by, was never our destiny. We were meant to be profoundly effective. Why have we accepted average? Are the few effects most of us see and experience all Christianity has to offer? Is this it? All we can expect? If so, someone out there needs to feel sorry for us.

Those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:30

God sometimes uses us most powerfully when we feel the least adequate.

God has a task for you—one He planned very long ago and suited for our present generation. Remember you are not responsible for completing anyone else's task, just yours. God desires for us to encourage one another in our tasks (see Heb. 10:24—25), but we are responsible only for completing our own.

Fight the good fight for the faith; take hold of eternal life, to which you were called and have made a good confession. 1 Timothy 6:12

Precious son God must love you so … Against all odds A gift from God For purposes He knows. There's ball to play Trucks to race Motorcycles, too … But most of all Fulfill your call God has chosen you.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me. John 6:38

You are near to all who call on You, Lord, to all who call on You in truth (Ps. 145:18).

Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 CORINTHIANS 10:31 Let's face it. None of us can do a thousand things to the glory of God. And in our vain attempt we stand the risk of forfeiting a precious thing—EXCELLENCE. Oh, that we might discern the will of God, surrender to His calling, resign the masses of activities, and sell out to do a few things well. What a legacy that would be for our children.

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received. Ephesians 4:1