Spiritual Calling Quotes

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.

God has uniquely gifted you to help someone. Be available as God opens doors for you to do so.

Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose - His purpose.

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved.

A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.

A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune had told me that I was a "teacher" - she didn't mean at Columbia, she meant in the spiritual sense - I decided my affliction was the universe telling me that it was time to stop writing fiction and become the spiritual guru I was clearly meant to be.

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It’s far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

I am appointed by God to save my country.

People who get comfortable in their spirit miss what they were created for. They were created to magnify the glory of the world.

I am just here to serve God's will.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.

I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.

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

The voice that called us years ago still calls us today. Every monastic day is a new monastic beginning.

Living for God's glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish with our lives.

If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

I believe God wants me to be President.