author jim robbins

Heart and callling are inextricably linked: you can't know your calling without knowing the deep desires of your heart -- and believing that they are trustworthy. Within your new heart lie desires God is awakening. Here are some quotes on 'calling:'

“For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.” -- Albert Einstein

“Progress is not created by contented people.” -- Frank Tyger

“Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy – that he live in accordance with his own nature.” (Seneca)

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deepest gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” -- Frederick Buechner
"[Our] original shimmering self gets buried so deep we hardly live out of it at all . . . rather, we learn to live out of all the other selves which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather." --Frederick Buechner
"What I do is me: For that, I came." -- Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins

"What is in you that is so unique, that if you don't live with it, the Kingdom of God will live without it?" -- Gary Barkalow, www.thenobleheart.com

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Listen to the podcast: "A life of desire"

Listen to the podcast: "Recovering our desire"

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How about you? Do you have any quotes on calling/purpose you can share?