Called Out Quotes

“In fact, it’s my belief that everything we do (our vocational calling) serves as a vehicle to share who we are—people loved by God and called to love God and share his love with the people of this world (our faith calling).”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“When God calls you, he’ll equip you. It becomes less about what you can bring to the table and more about being expectant that God will show up.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“The light of God surrounds me, the love of God enfolds me, the power of God protects me, the presence of God watches over me; wherever I am, God is.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“I never understood how faith calling and vocational calling operated together, not really. (I thought that calling and career were synonymous.) And sure, I was a person of faith and didn’t hide it from my co-workers, but I didn’t allow it to directly influence my decision-making in the office either. I treated my faith calling and my vocational calling as two separate things. Wrapped up in what I did (a journalist) instead of who I was (loved by God and called to share his love), I was terrified of failure, of not measuring up.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“In fact, when he counsels young people about discovering their calling, he tells them to pay attention to three things: their natural giftings, their innate curiosities, and the vocational encouragement given by trusted teachers, leaders, and mentors.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“You don’t have to change everything overnight (nor do you have to wait for a year of hell to wake you up). You can begin to correct your course today by making a simple paradigm shift and seeking incremental change.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“(what are we good at, what are we curious about, and what are the skills and proficiencies our mentors and trusted advisors recognize?).”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“I’d lost track of my true purpose, my true faith calling. But through a series of truly unfortunate events (the Year of Hell, as I’ve come to call it), God woke me up. And though I didn’t know what that might mean for my career—not exactly, anyway—I did the next right thing. I slowed down and reexamined the trajectory of my life. If I kept going in the same direction, I’d lose myself, and maybe my family.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“If you’re moving too fast to slow down and root yourself in your faith calling, you’re moving too fast. If you don’t slow down, rest assured, God will slow you down.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“When God calls you, he will always equip you, but he equips you to an identity rooted in your faith calling, not in your career.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“I didn’t fully appreciate this truth in the first half of my career. I poured myself into my career, made it my life, my identity, and in that, a subtle twisting happened. What was that twisting? I believed this: The God who had called me to be a reporter would equip me to be a reporter. Instead of believing this: The God who’d called me to love God and love people would equip me to express that love through my vocation, whatever that vocation happened to be.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“As Christians, it’s time to have a much bigger, more nuanced conversation about calling. Calling isn’t just about your vocation. It’s more holistic. It’s not what you do, it’s who you’ve been created to be—a follower of the living God who shares his love with a hurting world. And when we come to understand this truth, we see our true identity—we are representatives of the living, loving God.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“Impostor Syndrome is a pervasive feeling of self-doubt, insecurity, or fraudulence despite often overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It strikes smart, successful individuals. It often rears its head after an especially notable accomplishment, like admission to a prestigious university, public acclaim, winning an award, or earning a promotion.1”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“Just like David Shedd had said, our vocational callings are meant for something bigger. They’re meant to advance our purpose, our faith calling—to be our unique vehicle by which we love God and others. They’re meant to be rooted in and flow from our faith calling. And when that happens, it’s God’s love and our mandate to love others that motivates us to push through our fear and move into new opportunities, new areas of influence. It doesn’t become so much about what we do, but rather who we’re doing it for.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“Don’t allow fear to prevent you from walking into your destiny,”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“Your vocational calling is much bigger than the fear that limits you.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“Through success and achievement, I found a place, an identity, a sense of self-worth. I was Paula the Good Student, Paula the Musician, and Paula the Overachiever. And though it wasn’t conscious, a subtle belief began to creep in: I was only as good as my next accomplishment, my next achievement, the next rung of the ladder I climbed. I was as good as the next thing I did.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“As important as it is to identify, know, and internalize your faith calling, it is just as important to identify, know, and internalize your vocational calling. And if you’ve gotten off track, if you can’t quite say what your vocational calling is, do a little digging. Ask the questions Shedd asked: What are my innate skills? What am I curious about? What skills and proficiencies have my mentors and friends recognized in me? Then ask, Is there anything getting in the way of that calling, anything such as fear?”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“the way you pursue your vocational calling will be unlike anyone else’s.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“You may have the same faith calling as others in your chosen vocation. (I’m not the only Christian in broadcast journalism, for instance.) You might even have the same general vocational aims (just as Peter, Andrew, Paul, and Ananias had the vocational aims of sharing the Christian faith). But because you have different skills and gifts, different curiosities, and because different people have spoken into your life (which is to say nothing of the differences in your life experiences), your vocational calling is unique to you.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“our vocations are meant for one purpose—to be a vehicle for sharing God’s love with the world.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“Faith calling—everyone has one, even if they don’t call it that. What is it? For the Christian (or one who believes in God), it is who God has created you to be, and how you’ve been called to live in response.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“Did I even know myself without this career? Could I? My worth had become my work. My value, in my vocation.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“I’ve been plagued by fear my whole life—fear of failure, fear of not fitting in, fear of being alone, fear of being embarrassed, fear that I didn’t belong, fear that I wasn’t good enough—and over the years, I’d almost lost myself to those fears. But time after time, God moved me through those fears and into a deeper sense of my callings, both my faith calling and the calling of my career.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“Dr. Martin Luther King: “Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling

“I was afraid of living without my narcotic of choice—work.”
― Paula Faris, Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling