calling

it is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them.

It is an exciting adventure, doing what you love.

God can communicate to us through powerful feelings. They have an energy that impels us to action. They grip our mind and will not let us go. What is calling you? What has the voice of God been whispering to you through the desires of your heart? To what are you drawn and constantly compelled to do? It could be that God is opening the eyes of your heart to see something that no one else is seeing, and to do something that others aren__ doing. If that is true, then move forward and let God worry about the how.

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.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

We are peculiar people called to fulfill a great mission.

With every calling comes the anointing you need to be able to stand firm in the situations that you will have to face

To live out God__ plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself_and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.

I__ fulfilling my calling no matter what is happening and against whom

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don__ then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling

The doctor in Murare is old - old for anybody. He is especially old for a doctor and especially old for an African. But he doesn´t have the luxury of retirement to look forward to. There aren´t enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don´t do it for the money or because thy want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breath or eat or love. They can´t stop. As long as they are alive, they will never not be a doctor. They can be old, or alcoholic or burnt-out, but they will always be a doctor.

Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

I used to fight back the inner resistance within me before when for a while I thought this keeps me from living the life I was born to enjoy. But then I realized that this "madness" inside me is not at all a destructive force but a raging "storm" which needs to come out for me to fully discover my potential. This wondrous "storm" helped me to unravel the secrets of my being - of my purpose and true calling. Now, I come to embrace wholeheartedly who I am and why I was born." - "My Storm", Author/Poet Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo