#calling

Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#christianity #vocation #workplace #worldview #life

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place. ↗

— Mark Galli

#freedom #god #freedom

May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#god #mother #sacred-callings #sacred-responsibilities #love

I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ." --Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling ↗

— Brother Andrew

#god #highest-calling #living-for-christ #purpose #sacrifice

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#teachers #men

The voice of love calls to you, my son. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#caring #duty #love #responsibility #romance

A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do. ↗

— David Winter

#catholic #lost #purpose #religion #value

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#also #called #calling #central #central park

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#ever #getting #hanged #i #just

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#books #calling #i #novels