Top 100 Christian Calling Quotes
#1. Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.
Jim George
#2. Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.
Max Lucado
#3. When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.
Charles R. Swindoll
#4. I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren't included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian.
Jane Fonda
#5. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever. That is what the Christian faith promises.
Timothy Keller
#9. The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing ... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.
William Gurnall
#13. Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
Alan Hirsch
#14. To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
R.C. Sproul
#15. A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.
Martin Luther
#17. Our greatest value is to reproduce ourselves in the lives of others. When you leave behind a vibrant Christian who knows his calling and his commission, you can be buried, but you will live on through all those in whom you have been reproduced.
Jerry Falwell
#18. The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.
Frank Schaeffer
#20. One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.
Elizabeth George
#21. Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.
Jim Cymbala
#24. In today's newspaper there was a story about a married clergyman with three children who is calling for all sex to be declared un-Christian. He says lifelong virginity is the ideal for Christians. I wonder, has he told his wife and children this?
Wendy Buonaventura
#26. If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'
Adam McKay
#27. Calling a child "rebellious" has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school "stupid." It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tim Kimmel
#28. Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.
Joel Beeke
#29. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Ephesians 4:4-6 (King James Version)
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#33. Yet some of the most faithful, effective Christians I know are those who are living out their quiet calling to the few in their home, to their fledging church, or to the homeless under a bridge in their city. Nothing is meager or insignificant about that.
Priscilla Shirer
#34. Our real calling to be a compassionate Christian came when we stepped out of the waters of baptism ... We don't need a bishop's assignment to be kind. We don't need to sign up to be thoughtful. We don't need to be sustained by our wards to be sensitive.
Chieko N. Okazaki
#35. We are citizens of heaven.
We must conduct ourselves, worthy of our calling, faith in Christ.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#38. The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.
Stanley Hauerwas
#41. I nod, and taking my tea, I head into the library. It's my refuge. I dig my BlackBerry out of my purse and contemplate calling Christian. I know it's a shock for him - but he really did overreact. When does he not overreact?
E.L. James
#46. God does not judge the condition or quality of His church by how good the meetings are on Sunday morning, but by how good the people are on Monday morning. The main calling of our life is more than just knowing the truth - it is having that truth become our life.
Rick Joyner
#47. At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.
John Lennon
#51. He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
Francis Chan
#52. There are Christians who are doing the right thing, but not always at the right time
Sunday Adelaja
#53. I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in the position with some directors, who will be calling me directly, and we're working on things and talking about things, but that's on a purely creative level.
Christian Bale
#55. It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird.
Stacie Orrico
#58. As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.
Rachel Held Evans
#59. Don't harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. Our sacred duty is to proclaim and preach the gospel of salvation to all people from every nation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#61. The Christian community must live out it's calling in the conscious recognition that secularism is false.
Richard J. Mouw
#62. God is calling you to relinquish your old habits and beliefs that are holding you back from being all He called you to be. To trust that He has something bigger and better in store for you.
Dana Arcuri
#63. My passionate adventure is to fulfill my calling; revered, preacher woman.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#67. I have decided on my destiny; accepted by calling as writing for God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. 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.
Beth Moore
#71. Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God's highest callings upon your life.
Elizabeth George
#72. Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of making disciples of all nations.
Gloria Furman
#73. Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.
Arthur Bennett
#76. Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.
Jesse Jackson
#77. To be profitable to God, your calling and ministry, the doors of utterance,ministry and faith must remain open.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#79. Count the cost of your calling, find the value of your dream, and most of all find your place in His love.
Deborah Brodie
#80. I've always felt very convicted that I didn't want to work in kind of the Christian film-making ghetto. My calling was always to show myself approved and worthy to work at the highest level possible in terms of craft and working with very gifted people and trying to be excellent in everything.
Brian Bird
#81. Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.
Max Weber
#85. Lord, I am your chosen woman; use me to accomplish your work on earth in Jesus Name. Amen.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity; placing Christ back in the role as head teacher.
Steve Maraboli
#90. The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
Wendell Berry
#91. No amount of organization and time management will compensate for a lack of Christian character, not when it comes to this great calling of glory through good - bringing glory to God by doing good to others.
Tim Challies
#93. When we reduce the notion of "calling" to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.
Tullian Tchividjian
#95. There are certain times in a concert when I'll call an audible because I feel like God is calling me to play a different song. But truthfully, I feel called to play for the church whether it's song being played on Christian radio or it's concerts I'm doing primarily in churches.
Jonny Diaz
#98. A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.
Tony Campolo
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