Calling Quotes - Page 36

• Acting is my calling, not my career.

  Angela Bassett

  Careers, Acting

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• Your life is too valuable, your calling too great, & your God too awesome to waste your life on what doesn't matter.

  Craig Groeschel

  Matter, Waste, Life Is

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• We have to steer our true life’s course. Whatever your calling is in life! The whole purpose of being here is to figure out what that is as soon as possible, so you go about the business of being on track, of not being owned by what your mother said, what society said, whatever people think a woman is supposed to be when you can exceed other people’s expectations and be defined by your own!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Thinking, Expectations

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• God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God.

  Francis Chan

  Religious, Falling In Love, Love Relationship

  Francis Chan, Mark Beuving (2010). “Remembering the Forgotten God: An Interactive Workbook for Individual and Small Group Study”, p.125, David C Cook

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• From tonight onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.

  Robin Sharma

  Running, Fate, Control Of Your Life

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.74, Jaico Publishing House

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• As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

  John F. Kennedy

  Music, Country, Art

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• 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

  Running, Texas, President

  "Timothy Geithner". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2011.

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• So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how we believe we have experienced God, doing our best to dispel our human delusions. Let me try to do just that. I experience God as the source of life calling me to live fully and thus to respect life in every form as embodying the holy.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Trying, Holy

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• Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.

  Jon Foreman

  Brother, Judging, Different

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• When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.

  Jean Houston

  Depth, Genius, Grows

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• How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Doe, Performing

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• 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

  God, Succeed, Higher Calling

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• 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

  Christian, Home, Bridges

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• One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

  Milton S. Hershey

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• The thing is, you don't even want to be mad about someone calling you fat because who the f--- cares? Like if somebody tells me, 'Oh, you look curvier.' That should not be a diss. The fact is, we live in a time where that is a diss. It's horrible we can be like, 'You look so skinny,' and someone's like, 'Thank you!' That's horrible. That's equally as horrible to me. So the time we live in, it's upsetting.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Mad, Upset, Want

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• The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Life, Change, Loneliness

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• Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

  Calvin Miller

  Age, Treasure, Praying

  Calvin Miller (2011). “Letters to a Young Pastor”, p.8, David C Cook

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• Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves, and being in relationships that honor all of these. Such needs are fulfilled in an atmosphere of the five A’s by which love is shown: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing.

  David Richo

  Appreciation, Acceptance, Love Is

  David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• Discovery of purpose is a continuous activity, and revelation of it is an ongoing process... The most fortunate people on earth are those who have found a calling that is bigger than they are, a reason for living that moves them and fills their lives with constant passion, aliveness, and growth. Your soul's true purpose is to be the love that you are!

  Glenda Green

  Moving, Passion, Discovery

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• If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

  Bob Gill

  Art, Designer, Sideways

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• Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

  Steven Pinker

  Humanity, Overcoming, Figures

  "Time Magazine's 'Evolution Wars' Features Albert Mohler". www.christianpost.com. August 10, 2005.

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• Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging. Insulting names echo in a child's mind over and over again until he comes to believe he is indeed stupid, selfish, lazy, or ugly and that in fact, that is all he is.

  Beverly Engel

  Children, Stupid, Selfish

  Beverly Engel (2002). “The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing”, p.71, John Wiley & Sons

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• Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!

  Kathy Ireland

  Integrity, Character, Mean

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• America as did with Israel with its blessing has been turning away from God driving Him out of its public squares. Bring in idols in its place and calling what is evil good and what is good evil. ... The glory of the city on the hill is fading and America now stands in danger of impending judgment, and we all know it.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Blessing, Squares, Israel

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• When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Praying, Indifference

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