Calling Quote by Rachel Held Evans Download Open image “As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.” — Rachel Held Evans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calling Christ Christian Motherhood
“As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ. And following Christ is something a woman can… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“My calling as a mother is the same as any other Christian’s: to fulfill God’s will for our lives and to glorify him. This means I am to follow the Lord’s design for my marriage—cleaving to my husband, supporting him, honoring him, loving him as my own flesh. I am to be a careful steward of the world in which… — Sally Clarkson Copy Share
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I understand three ways of contemplating motherhood in God. The first is the foundation of our nature’s creation; the second is his taking of… — Lisa E. Dahill Copy Share Image
“Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every… — Gloria Furman Copy Share Image
Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong. — Mary Beth Whitehead Copy Share Image
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it. — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit children and then rearing those children so they will serve the Lord and keep his commandments. ...Motherhood is a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord's work, a consecration and devotion to… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share
Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“So what did God say to me in the silence that morning? I’m not sure, but I think God said something like, Don’t try… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Some rabbis say that, at birth, we are each tied to God with a string, and that every time we sin, the string breaks. To those who repent of their sins, especially in the days of Rosh Hashanah, God sends the angel Gabriel to make knots in the string, so that the humble and contrite are once again tied to… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share
One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“My robust lexicon notwithstanding, I struggle to find the right words to describe just how much I despise, hate, abhor, revile, detest and categorically… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“I don’t know for sure, but I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved, for it changes with the seasons, but its roots keep it anchored in the ground. Mastering a gentle and quiet spirit didn’t mean changing my personality, just regaining control… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share
Whenever we show others the goodness of God, whenever we follow our Teacher by imitating His posture of humble and ready service, our actions… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Cynicism may seem a mild transgression, but it is a patient predator that suffocates hope, slowly, over many years,” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
When you heed the calling of your heart, you are following your purpose. Having purpose in your life gives you the courage to do… — Rhonda Britten Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share
There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
NBC is making a movie about Martha Stewart that will cover the recent stock scandal. They are thinking of calling it 'The Road To… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music,… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image