Courage and Calling Quotes

“The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.”
― Gordon T. Smith, Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

“Some people suggest that we should no longer use the word vocation because it has lost its meaning and force. But to stop using this wonderful word would be to cave in to a false notion of vocation. We must recover the original meaning. We must restore to our communities and to our language an understanding of vocation as calling - as something that is fundamentally sacred and that enables us, in response to God's call - to embrace what God would have us be and do in the church and in the world.”
― Gordon T. Smith, Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

“each transition will involve some kind of loss. Growth will always be costly; a new venture will always involve some form of letting go. It may be a matter of separation—from parents or from those who are part of an old way or an old world. It may involve leaving behind the comfortable and the secure. Each transition will be a small death, and the new life, the new opportunity and the new challenge will only come as we let go.”
― Gordon T. Smith, Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

“Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.”
― Gordon T. Smith, Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

“Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.”
― Gordon T. Smith, Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

“Good work requires of us an appreciation of the value of routine, ordinary, mundane rhythms of doing what needs to be done, each day and each week, thoroughly and with care.”
― Gordon T. Smith, Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

“For many, hectic activity provides a kind of perpetual adrenalin rush. Often those consumed by busyness feel as though this pattern of life and work legitimizes them. They feel important; they feel needed; they feel alive. However, they have a false sense of life and importance, and eventually it leaves them feeling hollow.
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― Gordon T. Smith, Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential