The Call Quotes

“True seekers are different. On meeting them you feel their purpose, their energy, their integrity, their idealism, and their desire to close in on an answer. Something in life has awakened questions, has made them aware of a sense of need, has forced them to consider where they are in life. They have become seekers because something has spurred their quest for meaning, and they have to find an answer.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling God's Purpose For Your Life

“Calling is the truth that God calls us to”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling God's Purpose For Your Life

“René Dubois, “Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente”,”
― Os Guinness, El llamamiento: Cómo hallar y cumplir el propósito esencial de tu vida

“The called-out assembly of God’s people, which is subordinated to Christ as its head and coordinated with its fellow members of the body, lives its life by its practical obedience to God’s call in Christ.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“The secret of a great life is often a man’s success in deciphering the mysterious symbols vouchsafed to him, understanding them and so learning to walk in the true path.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“Many lives have a mystical sense, but not everyone reads it aright. More often than not it is given to us in cryptic form, and when we fail to decipher it, we despair because our lives seem meaningless. The secret of a great life is often a man’s success in deciphering the mysterious symbols vouchsafed to him, understanding them and so learning to walk in the true path.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“To make the choice of career or profession on selfish grounds, without a true sense of calling, is “probably the greatest single sin any young person can commit, for it is the deliberate withdrawal from allegiance to God of the greatest part of time and strength.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“In the beginning was the Word”— and in each of our beginnings was a Word to us. Each of our lives is therefore relational and aural at core. All we are is a hearing and a response. We are responsible because we are response-able. Between the first word of God’s creation and the last word of his judgment our ways of life are our response to God’s Word to us. There is no God but God. There is no word but God’s Word. There is no way of life but God’s way of life. But for the time being our response is up to us; we are not forced to say yes. Indeed, as Kierkegaard insists, “All the shrewdness of ‘man’ seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“God calls people to himself, but this call is no casual suggestion. He is so awe inspiring and his summons so commanding that only one response is appropriate—a response as total and universal as the authority of the Caller. Thus”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“Our life-purpose therefore comes from two sources at once—who we are created to be and who we are called to be. Not”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“Formerly, it is pointed out, heroism was linked to the honor of accomplishment. Honor was accorded to the person with some genuine achievement, whether in character, virtue, wisdom, the arts, sport, or warfare. Today, however, the media offer a shortcut to fame—instantly fabricated famousness with no need for the sweat, cost, and dedication of true greatness. The result is not the hero but the celebrity, the person famously described as “well-known for being well-known.” A big name rather than a big person, the celebrity is someone for whom character is nothing, coverage is all.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“As it happens, the differences are clear between the major answers to the search for purpose in life, and they lead in entirely different directions.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“Stranger, tell the Spartans that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried here.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“calling in the Bible is a central and dynamic theme that becomes a metaphor for the life of faith itself.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

“Disciples are not so much those who follow as those who must follow.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life