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Quotes on Accepting and Magnifying Callings:

"We counsel you to accept callings in the Church and to serve faithfully in the positions to which you are called. Serve one another. Magnify your callings. As you do so, you will be the means of blessing others and you will increase in spirituality."

Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p.454

President Thomas S. Monson:

"Each of us has opportunities for Church assignments. This opportunity of serving in the Church enables us to demonstrate a love of God and a love of our neighbor. There is no finer way to demonstrate love of God than by serving Him in the positions to which we may be called. Occasionally, the reward for that service will be prompt, and we'll see the light in the eyes of the person whom we have helped. Other times, however, the Lord will let us wait a little while and let our reward come another way."

Ensign, Jan. 1998, p. 5 - “How Do We Show Our Love?”

"Bloom where you are planted."

Mary Engelbreit

Elder Henry B. Eyring, Quorum of the Twelve (at Ricks College Graduation, April 25, l998):

"When the bishop calls you to serve, you will be on the Lord's errand. And when you are on the Lord's errand, you are entitled to the Lord's help."

"The Lord blesses those who try to serve Him, and He tells us what He would have us do to serve Him through His servants who hold keys. When we answer 'yes' and when we persist in working hard in those calls, we assure ourselves of help far beyond and above our own powers."

(Talking about "gospel hobbies")

You ever wonder if that is why the Lord gives us callings in several areas over our lifetime? He may figure that if he didn't, we would all find our little nitch and stay there. I believe He wants us to grow more than that.

President J. Reuben Clark:

"In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one takes the place to which one is duly called, which place one neither seeks nor declines." (CR April 1951)

President Howard W. Hunter:

"Why do we serve? When we understand why, we won't be concerned about where we serve."

BYU Fireside, Sept. 2, 1990

"As calls come to us for church service by the Lord's representatives, it is natural for us to wonder why we have been selected. The Lord has made it plain that every individual has been blessed and endowed with certain gifts and talents. And while there are many gifts, yet 'To some is given one, and to some is given another, that all may be profited thereby.' (D&C 46:12)"

Henry D. Taylor
Conference Report, October 1963, p.71

"I wish that every Latter-day Saint could say and mean it with all his heart: 'I'll go where you want me to go. I'll say what you want me to say. I'll be what you want me to be.' (Hymns, 1985, no. 270.) If we could all do that, we would be assured of the maximum of happiness here and exaltation in the celestial kingdom of God hereafter.

Ezra Taft Benson - "Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson", p. 344

"If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those you might have saved, had you done your duty."

(Quoted by Thomas S. Monson, Ensign, May 1986, pp. 37-38 "The Call of Duty",
also May 1996 Ensign, p. 43 "Duty Calls)
Quoting John Taylor

"If you will accept every call that comes to you within the Church, you will grow in a remarkable and marvelous and wonderful way. With responsibility comes growth, and the Lord will magnify you and make you equal to every responsibility which is given you."

President Gordon B. Hinckley - From member meeting, Guam, Jan. 31, 2000

"A limit on what you will do puts a limit on what you can do."

Dexter Yager

President Clark said: 'In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one takes the place to which one is duly called, which place one neither seeks nor declines.'"

Boyd K. Packer - "Called to Serve," Ensign, Nov. 1997, p. 7

"Whom the Lord calls, the Lord qualifies."

President Thomas S. Monson - "Duty Calls" May 1993 Ensign, p. 43

"In the kingdom, the greater our responsibilities,
the greater is our need to see ourselves as servants."

Spencer W. Kimball (Ensign May 1979, page 107)

He (the man of Christ) expects a variety of assignments in the Church; some carry the thrills of making a beachhead landing deep in enemy territory, and others involve “minding the store” back home. When he sings, “I’ll go where you want me to go, dear Lord” (Hymns, no. 75), it is not only a promise to go to a Nineveh, but it is also a pledge to stay at his present post.

Neal A. Maxwell - April 1975 General Conference "The Man of Christ"

"He (the Lord) expects each of us to be faithful members of the Church; to do what we are asked to do; to move the work forward; to serve wherever we are called to serve, and build the kingdom in the world.

President Gordon B. Hinckley — From member meeting, Jakarta, Indonesia, Jan. 28, 2000

"God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability!

"It's Service, Not Status, That Counts" - Neal A. Maxwell - July 1975 Ensign

"Calls will stretch you, often at the start and always over their course, but He will give you the Holy Ghost to be your companion."

Elder Henry B. Eyring - "Watch Over and Strengthen" - Ensign, May 2000, 66

"Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings."

President Thomas S. Monson - Ensign, May 2000, 48

"The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him."

Elder Henry B. Eyring - Ensign, May 2000, 66

"I urge you to discern through the Spirit your divinely given capacities."

 General Conference, October 2003
Elder Richard G. Scott, Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

"A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired."

Neal A. Maxwell - “Willing to Submit,” Ensign, May 1985, 70

"This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice."

Elder Henry B. Eyring - "Ears to Hear" - Ensign, May 1985, p. 76

"Within your sphere of responsibility you have as serious an obligation as do I within my sphere of responsibility. Each of us should be determined to build the kingdom of God on the earth and to further the work of righteousness."

President Gordon B. Hinckley - General Conference, October 2003

"Whatever our calling, regardless of our fears or anxieties, let us pray and then go and do."

Thomas S. Monson, "They Pray and They Go," Ensign, May 2002, 49

"(In your callings) you have access to more than your natural capacities, and you do not work alone. The Lord will magnify what you say and what you do in the eyes of the people you serve. He will send the Holy Ghost to manifest to them that what you spoke was true. What you say and do will carry hope and give direction to people far beyond your natural abilities and your own understanding."

Henry B. Eyring, "Rise to Your Call," Ensign, Nov. 2002, 77