In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
“But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation!” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Many people don't understand the difference between a vocation and your own idea about something. A vocation is a call-one you don't… — Dolores Hart Copy Share Image
... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel Copy Share Image
“A vocation is a terrible thing. To be called out of nature into the supernatural life is at first (or perhaps not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Only the brave should teach…Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
“We grow in holiness in the honing of our specific vocation. We can't be holy in the abstract. Instead we become a… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Potential does not always ensure success. The greatest players have not always been the most endowed. In athletics, we often hear the… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
...marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Our task is to announce in deed and word that the exile is over, to enact the symbols that speak of healing… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
