Tim Van Patten Quotes

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

Here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.

I honestly think I was put on the Earth to be some sort of prophet.

I am just here to serve God's will.

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet of your life - including your pain - as a means through which God can work to bring others to Himself.

If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel, in being chosen for so noble, so sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in embracing it.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

I am appointed by God to save my country.

Here on earth, God’s work is our own.

Those who by God are helmsmen are ordained to serve the common weal.

God has brought us where we are, to consider the work we may do in the world, as well as at home.

I'm trying to do the work God created in my heart to do.

I feel like God put me here to help out with people's soul, man.

I've always felt that God, himself, has chosen me for his purpose, for higher callings whether it's to be an inspiration to somebody else's life, whether it's to change somebody else's life, or whether it's to be that support or light in somebody else's life.

I know God touched my heart to lead the youth back to Him. A lot of people can do it, but He chose me to do it.

We have opportunities to be used by the living God on a daily basis and I don't need the platform of a concert hall to do so.

I encounter thousands of people, millions of people, over the course of ministry, but there's been a handful of people that I knew was like, this was direct assignment.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.