Quotes about Calling

He shall be called a Nazarene.

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets.

Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom.

The Lord called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.

Everybody has a purpose.

My heart's desire is that people will listen to the Lord and his leading and really dive into the fullness of what He's called them to do, whatever that looks like.

infant's face and brushed the tiny palm. When the baby's fingers closed around his finger, his heart raced even faster. Never had he felt such encompassing joy—and spreading terror. Am I to be his earthly father, Lord? A simple carpenter? Surely your Son deserves better than I! Joseph looked around at the dark walls of the shepherds

He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place.