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“The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality.”

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Author:Will Smith

“The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day expressing gratitude. It says to God that you are aware and appreciative of grace. It says to life that you are acknowledging its awesome presence in you. It says to yourself that you are worth the time it takes to be healed. Time spent in silence, contemplation and gratitude is time spent in devotion to a higher calling and a more loving state of being.”

Source: Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind

“Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.”

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Author:Rick Warren

“We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness.”

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Author:Pete Wilson

“Higher calling matters. When you care so deeply about the why-why you're doing what you're doing-then and only then are you operating in a way that allows you to overcome the obstacles.”

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Author:Dave Ramsey

“I don't sleep. I wait. I sleep in cars and on couches. I sleep when I can, but when I can't sleep, I just don't, so I figure there's a higher calling keeping me on point that night.”

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Author:Charlie Sheen

“It is not what I do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through me. God does not want worldly successes, He wants me. He wants my heart in submission to Him. Life is not just a few years to spend on self indulgence and career advancement. It is a privilege, a responsibility, a stewardship to be lived according to a much higher calling, God's calling. This alone gives true meaning to life.”

“You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.”

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Author:Lynne Stewart

“The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“That's the government. Having been a politician and a musician, I can tell you which one is a higher calling. If musicians ran the country, it would be a much different place. We wouldn't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'd work late.”

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Author:Kinky Friedman

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.”

“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”

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Author:Boethius

“The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs in the body...our emotions and higher callings, such as religion, as well as our grubby low-level physical systems like stereo vision and motor control, are products of a machine.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.”

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Author:Bryant H. McGill

“The nights I don't sleep it's because there's a higher calling telling me to stand guard.”

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Author:Charlie Sheen

“I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.”

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Author:Jacob Lew

“One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.”

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Author:Ravi Zacharias

“We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant.”

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Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.”

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Author:David Wilkerson

“When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling.”

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Author:Paul Zane Pilzer

“There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.”

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Author:Bill Bright