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“But once we know that behind most fear lurks a lie, then we can ignore it by remembering God's truths in our lives.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“Our personal callings are not commands but beckonings and promptings. We enter into them in partnership with God, making use of the opportunities that God presents to us and the passions that he has given us.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“Wisdom is learning to discern God's ways in a cluttered world of opinions, personal thoughts, mantras, and make-believe.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“It is only when we dare to be still and listen to God that our sins become apparent.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“The pace of our age is out of sync with God's timing. If we succumb too much to the pace surrounding us, we will miss his subtle signs.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“Our callings make no sense outside of worship, because worship acknowledges that calling as coming from, inspired by and sustained by God himself.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“At the core of each of us is an identity secure in Christ, which leads to an ongoing, unbroken relationship with him.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“The workplace is the coalface where faith is tested and sharpened by day-to-day encounters with the ambiguities and stresses of modern commerce. Our faith is tested when we recognise our weaknesses at work and we learn more about our hard and soft spots in our working relationships, precisely because we cannot always choose the people with whom we work. We are tested and we interact – testily or graciously – with colleagues, or press our own selfishness ahead of the common good.”
― Ken Costa, God at Work

“Fear can force employees to execute projects, but it cannot energize people. Fear is crippling and inhibiting, and it is one of the most dehumanizing forces in the workplace.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“It is God who leads us upward, to that which is bigger and higher and beyond our own abilities.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“It really is a question of what I will do with what I have rather than what I might be able to do if I were different.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“The key to making the best of your life, the key to discovering your calling, is to be with Jesus.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“Discovering a calling is not like doing a Google search; it does not happen in an instant. We need to be intentional about taking action rather than just waiting for our calling to drop into our laps.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“Indeed, the key to making the best of your life, the key to discovering your calling, is to be with Jesus.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“As we come to understand the collective might of small contributions, we can be released from the individualistic anxiety that comes with comparing ourselves to others.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“It's a fear nobody is exempt from--a fear that can cripple us even when we have our priorities correctly aligned and are wholeheartedly committed to following God's call. This is the fear of failure. I believe this fear constitutes the greatest barrier to our callings.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“If you stay strong and humble by serving others, worshipping God, and being strong in the Word and watchful of your character, you will remain fully alive in your calling.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

“This is our challenge today: to see our callings in the context of the wider world. We are not called to sit apart from the world, but to engage with it in the light of Christ.”
― Ken Costa, Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life