#calling

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#calling #intimate #intimate knowledge #knowledge #pays

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. ↗

— John Biddle

#both #calling #earnest #embrace #find

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#attention #better #calling #explained #human

For a long time, I wanted to become a theologian. Now, however, behold, how through my efforts God is being glorified through astronomy. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#job #knowledge #minitry #science #theology

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#necessity #passion #vocation #obedience

People from my first home say I'm brave. They tell me I'm strong. They pat me on the back and say, 'Way to go. Good job.' But the truth is, I am not really very brave; I am not really very strong; and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am simply doing what God has called me to do as a person who follows Him. He said to feed His sheep and He said to care for 'the least of these,' so that's what I'm doing, with the help of a lot people who make it possible and in the company of those who make my life worth living ↗

— Katie J. Davis

#christianity #missions #life

Although personal calling I sense, Who am I? even if I am, I don't know. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #personal-calling

...you don't need a calling to minister love... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #minister #wisdom #love

I don't think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever. ↗

— Amy Alcott

#become #between #black #blue #calling

In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#additional #again #against #amendment #calling