Quotes about Calling

We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

You're gifted to do something.

Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work that you need most to do and the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement, but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement.

To find our calling is to find the intersection between our own deep gladness and the world's deep hunger.

The sadness it feels in attaining any happiness less than the infinite—all these constitute the mating call of God to the soul.

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

If I woke up every day attempting to be my father, I would fail miserably. I think he was anointed. He was chosen by God, and there are few men or women in our world that will be chosen by God to make the kind of impact that he made.