Top 100 We Are Called Quotes
#1. We are chosen by God, it was not by coincidence. We have been accorded the dignity of kingship and we are called to take the Kingdom to the world. The destiny of millions of people depends on us.
Sunday Adelaja
#2. Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
Andrew Jackson
#3. Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.
Pope Francis
#4. We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.
David F. Wells
#5. We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.
Helen Roseveare
#6. Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who disagree with us. Abnormal communication - blessing those who curse us - establishes the relational level of our communication and demonstrates our concern for others.
Tim Muehlhoff
#7. We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
Mark Twain
#8. Unity is not something we are called to create; it's something we are called to recognize.
William Sloane Coffin
#9. Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation
David Shibley
#10. courage is not something we can manufacture by our own efforts. But when we surrender wholeheartedly to God, he gives us the courage to face whatever comes. He gives us the words to speak when we are called to stand and voice our faith.
Francine Rivers
#11. Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#12. The church is not called to be responsible for the way unbelievers run their lives. But we are called to be responsible, by the power of the Spirit and for the glory of Jesus, for the way believers live and the kind of relationships that are cultivated in the fellowship of the church.
John Piper
#14. We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#15. Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church.
Kennon Callahan
#17. As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.
Pope Francis
#18. God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises "before the nations." We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
Timothy Keller
#19. we will never become the men we are called to be unless we learn the art of friendship and intentionally cultivate deep, meaningful, rowdy relationships with other men.
Stephen Mansfield
#20. Jesus suffered for us. Yet we are called to participate in His suffering. Though He was uniquely the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy, there is still an application of this vocation for us. We are given both the duty and the privilege to participate in the suffering of Christ.
R.C. Sproul
#21. We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone.
Os Guinness
#22. We are called to have faith, even in the darkest hour, and not grow faint or join with the cynics and the mockers." C.S. Lewis
Lara Giesbers
#23. We are not called "human stagnates." We are called human beings, persons in process, persons involved in the act and art of actually shaping or reshaping ourselves, or working to understand what Frank Barron calls the "patterns within diversity.
Sandra A. Thomson
#24. We are called both to live pure lives and to take the good news to those in greatest need.
Dillon Burroughs
#25. If we are called to attention by God's Life and Holy Spirit, then the 'spiritual life' is not a pleasant option we might like to pursue when we have space and time; it is that which is now creating its own space and time within us, and to neglect it is to lose ourselves.
Luke Timothy Johnson
#26. The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.
Dillon Burroughs
#27. I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.
Matt Chandler
#28. May we store up the truths of God's Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure.
Billy Graham
#29. Holiness is not something we are called upon to do in order that we may become something; it is something we are to do because of what we already are.
Martyn
#30. Let us all remember that it is not our own reputations that are at stake in the missions to which we are called. It is His. The successes and the setbacks are His. It is His rejection, His reception - not ours. These
Neil Cole
#31. The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.
Henry B. Eyring
#32. The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.
Mark Hart
#33. We are called to obey Christ. He is the Master of our lives and has washed us in His blood, which cleanses our souls, our minds, and our mouths. The world is watching. What do they see and hear?
Billy Graham
#34. We are called to witness, always with our lives and sometimes with our words, to the great things God has done for us.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#35. In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of the boundless love of God, in order to experience his tenderness
Pope Francis
#36. We are called to destroy the works of the devil and to dominate the earth. We are the kings of this earth!
Sunday Adelaja
#37. The serving that we are called to requires direct contact. You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#38. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#39. We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#40. We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard ... I believe it is work we are called to do
Gene Robinson
#41. We are not the masters of our own destinies. We are called to plan and strategize, to work and live active lives, to attempt things that are beyond us and tackle challenges that stretch us to the limit. Yet the outcome of our efforts, even our ability to exert ourselves, is always in God's hands.
Carolyn Custis James
#42. Whether or not any of us become racists is a choice we make. And we are called to choose again and again where we stand on the issue of racism at different moments in our life.
Bell Hooks
#43. Thank God that we are called to seek his face and not his Facebook.
John Ortberg
#46. Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...
Arundhati Roy
#47. that there is some place better than our earthly home - a space where we are accepted no matter what, a banquet table where we are called by name and not ridiculed for being different.
Alice J. Wisler
#48. We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.
Andy Stanley
#49. We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.
Paul David Tripp
#50. We are called to be God's answer to each other's needs
Sunday Adelaja
#51. True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.
Pope Paul VI
#52. Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more - and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.
Barack Obama
#53. Grace is God's empowerment to do what we are called to do.
Bill Johnson
#54. We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
Pope John Paul II
#55. I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet.
James Redfield
#56. The rising in life of our familiar friends is, perhaps, the bitterest morsel of the bitter bread which we are called upon to eat in life.
Anthony Trollope
#57. Second Timothy is clear that we have a distinct, demanding body of doctrine that needs to be taught, a message that requires reiteration every Sunday if we, as the Church, are to be who we are called to be.
Richard J. Foster
#58. Just as God stepped out of his nature to become a partaker of our humanity, so we are called to step out of our nature to become partakers of his divinity (Hilary of Arles, Intro. Comm. on 2 Pet. 1.4).
Thomas C. Oden
#59. We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart
Pope Francis
#60. I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good - Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty. We are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.
Randall Terry
#61. We are called to fear only God. There is an important reason for this. What we fear is what we're subject to; our fears define our master. Where there is no fear, there is no control.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#62. The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.
Rumi
#63. God will never lead contrary to His word - so get acquainted with the Word of God, the Bible. Pray. He leads through the illumination of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Use whatever you have and be faithful. We are called to serve Christ in our sphere of influence.
Billy Graham
#64. As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.
Charles Stanley
#65. In the midst of a turbulent, often chaotic, life we are called to reach out, with courageous honesty to our innermost self, with relentless care to our fellow human beings, and with increasing prayer to our God.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#66. We know we are called to act like quality men with urgency that is governed by clarity in the strength of the Lord. What remains is this matter of love.
James MacDonald
#67. The struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do
John Geddes
#68. We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.
Henri Nouwen
#69. Nobody loves a good worship service more than I do, but we are called to make religion real, to make our faith come alive. Helping others have a decent place to live is one way to do that and it doesn't take too long for others to recognize it, too.
Millard Fuller
#70. We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
Albert Schweitzer
#71. We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#72. No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.
Wangari Maathai
#73. So the question we are called on to answer is no longer primarily, "can it be built?", but rather, "should it be built?
Ash Maurya
#74. Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.
Charles Spurgeon
#75. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is rightfully seen as the central fact, the crucial foundation, and the chief doctrine of the plan of salvation, which we are called to teach.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#76. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own-indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all it's diversity, beauty, and wonder.
Jeanette Winter
#77. People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.
Zig Ziglar
#78. For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.
Adora Svitak
#79. Our strive to succeed in life is an endless journey until we are called to our final resting place".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#80. In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both
without losing either.
Harriet Lerner
#81. For much of my life I floundered under the excuse of "nobody's perfect," the liberating and over-used phrase that affords guys like me the freedom to pile up sins in a careless and unchecked way. Ironically, being perfect is precisely what we are called to be!
Tarek Saab
#82. We are called to service in the kingdom of God. The Christian life is not about what you claim. It is about what you believe. True belief cannot be separated from what we do.
Tyler Edwards
#83. The Bible teaches that we have a Christian duty to help our neighbors in their time of need. We are called by God to bring the water of life for both soul and body. God created them both, and His purpose is to redeem them both.
Billy Graham
#84. We aren't really called to save the world, not even to save one person; Jesus does that. We are just called to love with abandon. We are called to enter into our neighbors' sufferings and love them right there.
Katie J. Davis
#85. If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
John Henry Newman
#86. A hundred different paths may lighten the world's load of suffering. Giving up meat is one path; giving up bananas is another. The more we know about our food system, the more we are called into complex choices.
Barbara Kingsolver
#87. A piety that sees death as the moment of "going home at last," the time when we are "called to God's eternal peace," has no quarrel with power-mongers who want to carve up the world to suit their own ends.
N. T. Wright
#88. Our world today is looking for men and women with integrity, for communicators who back up their ministry with their lives. Our preaching emerges out of what we are. We are called to be a holy people - separated from the moral evils of the world.
Billy Graham
#89. We are called upon to become creators, to make the world new.
John Elof Boodin
#90. There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful ... We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.
Amy Carmichael
#91. We can be, and we are called to be, good-news people - people who themselves are being renewed by the good news, people through whom the good news is bringing healing and hope to the world at whatever level.
N. T. Wright
#92. We are not called to love our church members only - we are called to love the whole world
Sunday Adelaja
#93. At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that ... liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing
Starhawk
#94. The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.
Timothy Radcliffe
#95. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.
Henri Nouwen
#96. We are called to make the world a better place, people - happier.
Sunday Adelaja
#97. In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but we do not choose our brothers and sisters' they are given to us, whether in family or in community." Jean
Jean Vanier
#98. The Spirit's work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin the life of holiness to which we are called. - Horatius Bonar
Randy Alcorn
#99. After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.
N. T. Wright
#100. At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and Christians are not ashamed to believe this. We invite everyone to accept the challenge to live as if we were all loved into existence.
Jennifer Morse
