Quotes about Calling
What God asks us to do, He equips us to do.
— Dutch Sheets
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order or in a worldly profession.
— Edith Stein
God has determined that run-of-the-mill people do most of his work—
— Edward Welch
We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
— Albert Schweitzer
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.
— Stanley Hauerwas
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.
— Beth Moore
As an 18-year-old, I really sensed the call of God. What was interesting about that time was, I come from a very conservative part of the body of Christ, so there was really nothing for a woman to do.
— Beth Moore
Lord, will you send me with such an unbelieving heart to persuade others to believe? Must I daily plead with sinners about everlasting life and everlasting death, and have no more belief or feeling of these weighty things myself? Oh send me not naked and unprovided to the work; but, as you command me to do it, furnish me with a spirit suitable thereto." Prayer
— Richard Baxter
Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271).
— Richard Baxter
The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.
— Richard Baxter
If you must needs have your pleasures, you should not have put yourselves into that calling that requireth you to make God and His service your pleasure, and restraineth you so much from fleshly pleasures.
— Richard Baxter
The ministry is another kind of business than too many excellent preachers take it to be.
— Richard Baxter