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“But beware of this about callings: they may not lead us where we intended to go or even where we want to go. If we choose to follow, we may have to be willing to let go of the life we already planned and accept whatever is waiting for us. And if the calling is true, though we may not have gone where we intended, we will surely end up where we need to be.”
― Steve Goodier

“There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Naive people tend to generalize people asâ€�-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of these things about Einstein, but it puts the notion of perfection to rest. Perfection doesn’t exist in anyone. Nor, does a person’s mistakes make them less valuable to the world.

1. He divorced the mother of his children, which caused Mileva, his wife, to have a break down and be hospitalized.

2.He was a ladies man and was known to have had several affairs; infidelity was listed as a reason for his divorce.

3.He married his cousin.

4.He had an estranged relationship with his son.

5. He had his first child out of wedlock.

6. He urged the FDR to build the Atom bomb, which killed thousands of people.

7. He was Jewish, yet he made many arguments for the possibility of God. Yet, hypocritically he did not believe in the Jewish God or Christianity. He stated, “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You can not choose your calling. Your calling chooses you.”
― Shannon Alder

“Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You were born into the world to fulfill a specific purpose in life. May you recognised your unique calling.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“But never has the Call been so clear
As now, when death’s cool hand
Eases my spirit from my fevered body--
And I answer the Call of the Master�
The Call to new Heights.”
― Jessica Coupe, Life Abundant a 30 day devotional for Latter-day Saint Women

“You are here on earth to fulfill a specific purpose.
May you recognised your calling.”
― Laillah Gifty Akita

“Fight the good fight of faith; ignore all callings of doubt regardless of how loud they sound. Arm yourself always against disappointments by planning and preparing very well.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Callings are deep longings to bring more of SOMETHING into your life.”
― Kami Guildner, Firedancer: Your Spiral Journey to a Life of Passion and Purpose

“So often we speak of finding our callings, when often our callings find us. We can choose to honor or ignore them; to fight or embrace them. When we allow love to guide our thoughts, we are open to their gift. When we allow fear to arise and dictate our direction, we deny ourselves and the world the gift of our true selves.”
― Sharon E. Reed

“Whether you are aged or weak, you can still serve the Lord”
― Sunday Adelaja

“When one followed a calling, passion was often a driving force greater than self-assuredness.”
― Leanna Renee Hieber, The Spectral City

“The New Testament is not very helpful about family values. Jesus, unmarried at an age when most Jewish men were husbands and fathers, exhibits a cavalier attitude toward families as he gathers his followers around him. Think about the call of the disciples from their wives' point of view: Jesus meets Peter and Andrew, James and John, as they are tending their nets. he says, "Follow me," and immediately they abandon their livelihood without a second thought. They abandon their families as well: did they ever go home to tell their wives that they would not be there for dinner? Did they make any provision for their families? When, in my imagination, I translate this story into the present time, were I the wife of Peter, Andrew, James, or John, I would be furious. "You did what? What about the health plan? Your pension? College for the children? Are you planning on coming back sometime? How am I going to manage? Who will look after the children if I have to get a job?" ... Jesus might have been an effective healer, but he also certainly knew how to disrupt a household.”
― Margaret Guenther, At Home in the World: A Rule of Life for the Rest of Us

“In the monastic mind, work is not for profit. In the monastic mentality work is for giving, not just for gaining. In monastic spirituality, other people have a claim on what we do. Work is not a private enterprise. Work is not to enable me to get ahead; the purpose of work is to enable me to get more human and to make my world more just.”
― Joan Chittister

“Humility is not a false rejection of God's gifts. To exaggerate the gifts we have by denying them may be as close to narcissism as we can get in life. No, humility is the admission of God's gifts to me and the acknowledgment that I have been given them for others. Humility is the total continuing surrender to God's power in my life and in the lives of others.”
― Joan Chittister

“People who are really humble, who know themselves to be earth or humus - the root from which our word "humble" comes 0 have about themselves, an air of self-containment and self-control. There's no haughtiness, no distance, no sarcasm, no put downs, no airs of importance or disdain. The ability to deal with both their own limitations and the limitations of others, the recognition that God in life and that they are not in charge of the universe brings serenity and hope, inner peace and real energy. Humble people walk comfortably in every group. No one is either too beneath them or too above them for their own sense of well-being. They are who they are, people with as much to give as to get, and they know it. And because they're at ease with themselves, they can afford to be open with others.”
― Joan Chittister

“A woman born to teaching wakes in the morning desperate to be near her pupils. I was that way. I am that way. I have told my own children and my husband to put on my grave marker 'Mother' and 'Teacher.' That before all else, even my own name. And if the chiseler has room, to have him put 'Wife.' 'Wife' below my name. 'Dutiful Wife,' if he can manage it.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

“Church, with all its imperfections, is faith’s incubator. Church is faith’s hospital and its picnic grounds, its sheltering tree and also the rich soil from which it grows. Church embraces faith and holds it tenderly with strong arms. It embraces me. And so I love the church, even when it expects more of me than I think it should.”
― Karen Stiller, The Minister's Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Doubt, Friendship, Loneliness, Forgiveness, and More

“All this pain and healing and all these moves have turned us into wanderers. There is so much wandering throughout the Bible: movement, shifting, and following. Trusting, leaving, and arriving. We follow God and love follows us.”
― Karen Stiller, The Minister's Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Doubt, Friendship, Loneliness, Forgiveness, and More

“The world we live in approves of all our longing and our envy. It cups its hands around the little flame of our envy and blows it into full life, if we let it. Gratitude, though, smothers envy and discontent, like a thick blanket thrown over that small fire.”
― Karen Stiller, The Minister's Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Doubt, Friendship, Loneliness, Forgiveness, and More

“Lord, why have you put me here? What have I done that makes you think me worthy of this call?”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“Creativity comes like callings, instant, and pure.”
― Lenfantvivant

“No two fingerprints, crystals, flames, snowflakes, or feathers are exactly alike. No two hearts beat to the same drum. No two voices sing the same note. And no two humans will ever have exactly identical callings.”
― Kris Franken, Wildhearted Purpose: Embrace Your Unique Calling & the Unmapped Path of Authenticity

“While Bernice didn't much trust a baby-faced physician, she appreciated young men called to serve as preachers and farmers, the highest of callings in her opinion, cultivators of souls and the land.”
― Talya Tate Boerner, Bernice Runs Away

“A workman who gives all his might to labor's unto the lord and his employer, labor not just for himself but lords it all to the govern rulers and principle guides of higher places.”
― Ben Jr Grey