“Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.” — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public… — Kevin Cramer Copy Share Image
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
Pondering was the highest vocation... Pondering was a special kind of thinking. It was not done in the mind, that chilly place,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
What happens is most of us are so busy in our lives with our families and our vocation which we should be,… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“And if we ourselves have a vocation, if we have not betrayed it, if over the years we have continued to love… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Among his various possible beings each man always finds one which is his genuine and authentic being. The voice which calls him… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“The Christian vocation is to be in prayer, in the Spirit, at the place where the world is in pain, and as… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Thus the vocation of the baptized person is a simple thing: it is to live from day to day, whatever the day… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
Surely people can now see that it is no accident that he, Obama, sat at the feet of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“New York: "I had only the vaguest of ideas of why I was there and certainly nothing that I would recognized as… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
