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“Your calling is God’s trust to you”
“He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling him still. Even when she fell asleep, she dreamed of water, as if the world were topsy-turvy and...”
“What good is a dream that doesn’t test the mettle of the dreamer? What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great e...”
“What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.”
“When you invest your life, you don’t lose it.”
“The presence of a path doesn’t necessarily mean the existence of a destination.”
“God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depen...”
“Diligence is God’s principle”
“Do not seek recognition or gratification from man — serve the Lord. He knows how to reward everyone”
“Some might ask whether the path is before us or within us. The answer is: Yes. We are both driven from within by our resident spirit and something outside calls forth the genius within us.”
“The only calling we have is to “GO”
“Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it’s up to us to keep it burning.”
“If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.”
“To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to de...”
“We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is to not know who we are intended to be or wha...”
“We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the ‘possible’ is never bound by the ‘probable,’ and instead we’ve dutifully heeded the god of fear that...”
“And we need Christians who don’t make others feel guilty (and don’t feel guilty themselves) when one of us follows a different passion than another. I read and write a lot. That’s what I do well. B...”
“Only God can make the common sacred.”
“People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned – it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned – and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of fail...”
“I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice”
