Church Calling Quotes

#1. There is no greater Church calling than that of a home teacher. There is no greater Church service rendered to our Father in Heaven's children than the service rendered by a humble, dedicated, committed home teacher.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. The Lord made it very clear at the start of this last dispensation that we were to take the gospel to all the world ... Whatever our age, capacity, Church calling, or location, we are as one called to the work to help Him in His harvest of souls.

Henry B. Eyring

#3. God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

Craig Groeschel

#4. It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church - dramatically and poignantly - the nature of its heart and mission.

Gary Smith

#5. In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.

Philip Yancey

#6. M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priesthood meant a call from the bishop, not necessarily a call from God. And I heard the Bishop of Rome himself call you to be that which you have now become by ordination and consecration.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#7. Holy Christ . . . are we talking zombies here?" Church smiled faintly. "We're calling him a 'walker.' Short for 'Dead Man Walking.' The head of my science team has too much of a pop culture sensibility.

Jonathan Maberry

#8. When we live up to our calling, we remember that in God's church people do not set the agenda, they are the agenda.

D. A. Carson

#9. The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling

Sunday Adelaja

#10. If I received a calling to serve in the church, then I have sheep to whom I have a divine obligation to minister and to serve.

Daniel L. Johnson

#11. The real church is comprised of a long list of "formers" who collectively work together for world reform.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#12. Evangelism is not a calling reserved exclusively for the clergy. I believe one of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.

Billy Graham

#13. Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

Alan Hirsch

#14. The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#15. We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

J. Golden Kimball

#16. If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that attend Mass and who afterwards peacefully take to the streets calling for the release of their husbands, sons and fathers who are political prisoners.

Marco Rubio

#18. No one has a calling to sit in the pews of the church

Sunday Adelaja

#19. The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

Eugene H. Peterson

#20. We do well to be reminded that the devil hates a praying leader and a praying church. When we begin to pray, we pick a fight with the devil at a whole new level. Yet, our calling is to be praying menaces to the enemy.

Daniel Henderson

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.

John Piper

#24. Love is a career with its own stages, rewards, and failures ... a vocation as concrete as a calling in the Church, worth giving a lifetime to.

Andrew Holleran

#25. The priesthood of all believers did not make everyone into church workers; rather, it turned every kind of work into a sacred calling.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#26. There was also something false about the atmosphere here. It was solemn and dignified like a church or the court of a president or a museum. They were moneylenders, but they acted as if charging interest were a noble calling, like the priesthood.

Ken Follett

#27. The church is to help its members mature in Christ's calling

Sunday Adelaja

#28. it seems best to view deacons as servants who do whatever is necessary to allow the elders to accomplish their God-given calling of shepherding and teaching the church.

Matt Schmucker

#29. Your calling is not an afterthought. God does not save you and then say, "Now what am I going to get him to do? What job can I give her in the church?" God saves you because He has a purpose for you.

Derek Prince

#30. To serve does not mean just to attend church services

Sunday Adelaja

#31. Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

K.P. Yohannan

#32. You were not called to be a mere church-goer or seat-warmer in the Church of Christ

Sunday Adelaja

#33. The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church ... is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

Dwight L. Moody

#34. At this stage we shall say only this: the Eucharist is the entrance of the Church into the joy of its Lord. And to enter into that joy, so as to be a witness to it in the world, is indeed the very calling of the Church, its essential leitourgia, the sacrament by which it "becomes what it is." In

Alexander Schmemann

#35. I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.

Brian Bird

#36. One of my favorite activities as a priesthood leader is visiting members of the Church in their homes. I especially enjoy calling upon and talking with members who commonly are described as 'less active.'

David A. Bednar

#37. The fact that you are attending church does not mean you are already serving the Lord

Sunday Adelaja

#38. After the church ceased to exist, an outfit calling itself the First Amendment Protection Society, Inc. - the largest operator of adult bookstores, topless bars, Internet porn sites, and karaoke cocktail lounges in the United States - intimidated

Dean Koontz

#39. For if there is an actual and present rule of God in the world, then it must be found, not in the conquest of visible enemies, but in the triumph of love and life, however halting and partial, over sin and death. And this is the work of the Spirit. And it is the calling of the Church.

Luke Timothy Johnson

#40. 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

#41. Time is on our side to fulfill the will of God in our church and nation

Sunday Adelaja

#42. I would sit in the back at church every Sunday trying to hide, and just when I thought I'd gotten through the service without her [grandmother] calling on me to sing 'His Eye Is On The Sparrow,' she'd always call me up

Brooke Valentine

#43. 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

#44. The Church is the Church only when it exists for others ... not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#45. The church is supposed to help the people discover their calling and reveal the Kingdom of God to them

Sunday Adelaja

#46. Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.

Pope John Paul I

#47. She didn't understand a thing about Catholics. It's all praise Mary, she said, women doing all the hard work and letting men run the church and calling the shots for everyone.

Amy Bloom

#48. Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!

Jarrid Wilson