Gary Rossington Quotes

No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

I'm not the 'chosen one.' I'm just one of many who have been given gifts. I can write. I can bloviate on TV. So I'm trying to use the gifts in a positive way. And I believe that's all directed. And that's why I'm here on the planet.

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.

What does genius mean? God has put us here specifically... every person has a job or journey to do. It's just a matter of finding what we're here to fulfill or execute. That's genius to me.

The truth is I try to show up each day available to do the work that God or whatever it is that's making, you know, the solar system work wants me to do. And I expect when he wants me to stop, I'll be the first to find out.

I really believe that God has a purpose for everything that I do.

I think music is my destiny. I want to commit myself for what God called me to do.

If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you.

Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.

We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.

I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.

I have a rendezvous with life.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.