Quotes about Call

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. We're doing exactly what TV commercials and pop materialist culture have been brainwashing us to do from birth.

The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

All believers are called to be holy in mind, body, and spirit (1 Peter 1:15).

I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine. My God, my joy and light

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

Just because I'm a wren doesn't mean I can't preach an eagle message. Of course I can. Is that a lack of integrity if I preach something bigger than I can even feel, if I preach a message that I haven't even grown to? That's not a lack of integrity. That's accepting the call. That's what it is because there's too much at stake to do otherwise.

God's grace always precedes his call.

When we see ourselves in a relationship of love with God, there is always something of a lover's dilemma, a struggle to give and receive, to trust and obey the call.

God is always active in our lives. He always calls, he always asks us to take up our crosses and follow him. But do we see, feel, and recognize God's call, or do we keep waiting for that illusory moment when it will really happen? Displacement is not primarily something to do or to accomplish but something to recognize.

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

I am gradually learning that the call to gratitude asks us to say, Everything is grace. As long as we remain resentful about things we wish had not happened, about relationships that we wish had turned out differently, mistakes we wish we had not made, part of our heart remains isolated, unable to bear fruit in the new life ahead of us. It is a way we hold part of ourselves apart from God.