Calling Quotes
A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.
May my family, household and I be a devout God-fearing men and women.
I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.
God hasn't called you to walk in someone else's shoes (purpose). He wants you to walk in the shoes that fit you, for which He made you. You aren't going to succeed walking in another woman's shoes.
We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields
When you have to make a choice, think of the impact your decision may make on your calling
The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.
The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.
The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau.
I choose me bristles with prideYes, I doA broom for the shaftAnd a broom for the flumeThough I'm covered with soot From me 'ead to me toesA sweep knows 'e's welcomeWherever 'e goes
He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.
A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.
When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.
Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.
The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.
He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.
How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII
I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie
What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?
He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.
The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.
Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.
The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.
The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal
I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath, and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams
He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.
Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.
One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.
The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.
As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.
God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.
Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it’s up to us to keep it burning.
If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.