Top 100 Quotes About God's Calling
#1. I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue God's calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.
Mark Batterson
#2. Comparison will be the number one thing that will keep you from doing what God's calling you to do. He's put a gift and a call and a desire in your heart that is different than anyone else's. And you're wired that way for a reason.
Kari Jobe
#3. Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.
Brother Yun
#4. The purpose of God's calling ... is not to give His people a little enjoyment of the animal life and the vegetable life in Egypt; it is to bring them into a spacious land flowing with milk and honey.
Witness Lee
#5. Discerning God's calling is more a relationship than a route, more journey than destination. It's about who you are becoming more than where you are going. Perhaps it's less about what you do and more about how well you do whatever you do.
Levi Lusko
#6. The wilderness is a place of trials and temptations where everyone is prepared and trained to fulfill God's calling
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#7. God's will doesn't have to be big, elaborate or life-changing. It's there in the small and seemingly unimportant choices we face every day. God's calling us to be faithful in the little things so that we will be prepared when He calls us for something bigger.
Tony Yang
#8. There will always be naysayers. The key is to listen to God's calling. If you're doing that, then everyone else's opinion amount to little more than hot air.
Karen Kingsbury
#9. If you have God's calling, the circumstances around you do not matter; God knows how to remove every obstacle
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#10. 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
#11. Only dedication to God's calling can make you say a firm "no" to everything that is in the way of its fulfillment.
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#12. You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency
using some human instrument.
Dwight L. Moody
#13. Coaching is an ongoing intentional conversation that empowers a person or group to fully live out God's calling.
Keith E. Webb
#14. We are what God calls us to be. Even if we're not what he's calling us to be, we are. Because he called us.
Tim Hiller
#15. It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.
Jim Bakker
#16. You become a candidate for God's love when you are rejected by people
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#20. If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.
Lee Smith
#21. If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?
Stephen King
#22. When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.
Michele Bachmann
#23. Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God's highest callings upon your life.
Elizabeth George
#24. God did not appear to Abraham without speaking to him. When He came to Abraham, He called him. God spoke to Abraham. Calling means speaking. It is not a small thing to hear God's speaking.
Witness Lee
#25. Discover yourself, discover what God has called you for, and find your place in life, so that you can fulfill God's purpose for your life
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#26. God hasn't called you to walk in someone else's shoes (purpose). He wants you to walk in the shoes that fit you, for which He made you. You aren't going to succeed walking in another woman's shoes.
Beth Moore Jones
#28. You may not know,
But it is absolutely true:
With each heartbeat
Your heart is calling: "God, God!"
You may not hear it,
But God Himself definitely hears
Your heart's cry.
Sri Chinmoy
#30. John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.
James Green Somerville
#31. When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's
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#32. What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don't all have the courage to confront our own dream.
Paulo Coelho
#33. God is calling you a mighty warrior. This study is about God's teaching us to live like the mighty warriors we can be in Him. Are you sick of deceit and ready to learn how to live like a mighty warrior?
Beth Moore
#34. The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy.
Michael Spencer
#35. Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.
Martin Luther
#36. You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.
Will Rogers
#37. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us ... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.
J.I. Packer
#38. I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.
Larry Crabb
#40. I have not been called
to the wisdom of this world,
but to a God who's calling out to me
And even though the world may think
I'm losing touch with reality,
it would be crazy
to choose this world over eternity.
MercyMe
#41. When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you
to succeed, He's calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.
David Wilkerson
#42. Answering the call of God is not something we do after details have been laid out. Nor is it something we do because others want us to do it. It's something we do because we know it's right. Because we love Him.
Sondra Kraak
#43. What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#44. No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.
John Calvin
#45. It's kind of shocking to hear Toby called a babe; sort of like calling God a studmuffin.
Margaret Atwood
#46. Once you become delivered, you have to find your calling and how to discover God's purpose for your life
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#47. Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.
Emmet Fox
#48. A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing.
Ravi Zacharias
#49. Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.
Os Guinness
#50. To live out God's plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself ... and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.
Elizabeth George
#51. Marriage can be tough. It really is. But God is calling you to do everything you can. It's just not you and your spouse. There's a third person in your marriage. And God would like to bless and protect that marriage, and give you many fruitful days ahead.
Tim Huelskamp
#52. Just continue to "walk in the light" you have been given, and leave the future in God's hands. If He is calling you to do a job, He will make it possible for you to care for your family and overcome any other barriers to that responsibility.
James C. Dobson
#53. Texas governor Rick Perry said God is calling on him to run for President. But Michele Bachmann said that god is calling on her to run for President. You know, if God is that indecisive, he's probably for Mitt Romney!
Jay Leno
#54. 'Touched by an Angel' started my calling to be the messenger, and on a weekly basis, I was able to deliver the message of God's love to the world.
Roma Downey
#55. Deacons are God's gift to bishops, not the other way around. They are there to remind him/her of their foundational calling. They become the instrument through which God saves a bishop's soul.12
Susanne Watson Epting
#56. Jelani hasn't stopped calling and text messaging me since Thursday. Every day there has been more than twenty calls, a dozen voicemails, damn near hundreds of text messages, and only God knows how many times he IM'd me because I haven't logged in out of fear. He's
Jessica N. Watkins
#58. Uplifting God's Kingdom on earth should be our life's mandate as believers
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#59. I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
Mojo Nixon
#60. Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea.
Anthony Liccione
#61. Calling on you to give up control of the outer world and gladly accept control of your inner relationship with God, devotion is essential for fully realizing your soul's calling.
Debbie Ford
#63. A woman's mission centered on home and family - vital spheres of ministry to be sure, but only a slice of the vast mission God originally cast by calling women to rule and subdue the earth.
Carolyn Custis James
#64. The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.
Erwin McManus
#65. 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
#66. God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.
Ravi Zacharias
#67. Please I'd rather you didn't do any name-calling, and you're talking this way because you've never been hungry for success. One would do anything to achieve success. And God understands.
S.A. David
#68. There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.
Joe Carnahan
#69. The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#70. Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
Henry Adams
#71. Khesed ... mercy ... love. It's God's nature, His essence. Don't forget that, through all this, don't forget that. Judgement is His necessity, but His nature and essence, His heart, is love. He's the one always calling out to the lost to be saved.
Jonathan Cahn
#72. I'll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I'll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, 'You're nobody!' they're calling you 'God's living children.
Eugene H. Peterson
#73. There is a gap between our love for the gospel and our love for godliness. This must change. It's not pietism, legalism, or fundamentalism to take holiness seriously. It's the way of all those who have been called to a holy calling by a holy God.
Kevin DeYoung
#75. A vision from God will motivate you. A vision for God will keep you on track. A vision from God will keep you moving and motivate you to press on to the mark of the high calling of God. This is why we need to have a vision. God's provision is directly linked to your expectation.
Todd Bentley
#76. I hope that we will learn from each other, but most of all that we would learn from God's Word, which equips us for every good work, including our calling to suffer for the glory of God and for the building of His kingdom.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#77. What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life
especially one's politics?
Shane Claiborne
#78. You don't need to know why God sent you to the earth before you say "yes" to what He sent you for! He wants you to prosper and he is the only one who knows "how?"!
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. It's only when you find God that you can discover your calling
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#82. Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
Timothy Keller
#83. When I finish a song, I thank God for bringing me through. You have to press on and know your calling. That's what I've been doing for all my life. I just went forward.
Andrae Crouch
#84. How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII
Barbara W. Tuchman
#85. Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
Billy Graham
#86. The past must not hold us from fulfilling God's purpose for our lives
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#87. After all, the living book of God's creation lies open for all to see; it points constantly to the divine calling for which we were placed in nature. Nature is a continual admonition to us, for nowhere has God's creation departed so far from its origin and primeval purpose as in the human race.
Eberhard Arnold
#88. When God requires us to surrender one dream, it's because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.
Mandy Hale
#89. Our daily work can be a calling only if it is reconceived as God's assignment to serve others.
Timothy Keller
#90. Never for a single moment have I believed that you are the murderer, the trembling voice suddenly burst from Alyosha's breast, and he raised his right hand as if calling on God to witness his words. Mitya's whole face instantly lit up with bliss.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#92. A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.
David Jeremiah
#93. Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.
Mark Driscoll
#95. 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
#96. We should see our calling as our life's major assignment
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#97. The Fifth Commandment of the Decalogue demands that one honor one's mother and father. That is not about calling home. It is about this: Their God is your God, their friends are your friends, their debts are your debts, their enemies are your enemies and their fate is your fate.
George Friedman
#99. Your bread may be small but with God's blessing it will increase
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#100. "His words moved people closer to God." I'd be happy if that's what people said about me at the end of the day. It's always been my calling.
Brian Bird
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