calling quotes

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

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

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.