#calling

I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitude for the very thing that bores you to tears, or for any of the other semi-valid reasons people marshal to justify allowing the true passion of their lives to leak away. If you're lucky, you may have more than one chance to get things right, but second and third chances, like second and third marriages, can be dicey propositions, and they don't come with guarantees.... The question then is this: How does a person keep from living the wrong life? ↗

— Richard Russo

#chances #education #life #meaning #passion

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die. ↗

— Michael Card

#change

We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world. ↗

— Os Guinness

#motivation #purpose #life

I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#christ #dances #heart #i #i see

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody. ↗

— Mojo Nixon

#being #calling #defeat #fear #fear god

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#arnold #arnold schwarzenegger #bad #california #calling

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day. ↗

— Barack Obama

#calling #change #day #delivering #doing

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty. ↗

— Patti Smith

#artist #aspires #built-in #calling #duty

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#i #lawyer #lot #me #myself

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#faith #our #part #reality #response