Vocation Quotes
Vocation Quote of the day
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.
You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?
I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.
When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?
That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.
Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.
If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.
Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.
What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .
All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.
Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.