Higher Calling Quotes

I am responsible only to God and history.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It’s far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.

I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

In order to maintain my own self-respect, I had to dedicate my life to something that was greater than my own self-interest.

God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people.

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

Spiritually speaking, every human being has a destiny and a duty to perform.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.

I believe that I definitely wasn't given this voice just to sing. I think it was given to me for a bigger purpose.

You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose. Focusing on yourself will never reveal your real purpose. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Only in God do we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance and our destiny.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul’s true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give.

It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.

You are fit for something better than ... cannon fodder.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.