“At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“When you have something to say, to express, any form of submission becomes unbearable in the long run... You have to have… — Picasso to Brassaï Brassaï Copy Share Image
There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
“It was his vocation to pleasure as many women as possible, in pursuit of his own pleasure. It was as close to… — Rosanna Leo Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
“All believers have been called into only one fellowship, which is that of Jesus Christ. Believers may mistakenly consider the group they… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time… — George Will Copy Share Image
Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in… — Marc Garneau Copy Share Image
“I'll enter some faculty or other, get a degree in a sunject that doesn't interest me but that will help me earn… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times.… — Brassai Copy Share Image
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
I knew, despite playing in the NBA, that I would have to prepare for another career or vocation for when my playing… — Len Elmore Copy Share Image
“Your calling may be to find new ways to tell the story of redemption, to create fresh symbols tat will speak of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
“Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits,… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
“The gift of singleness is more a vocation than an empowerment, although to be sure God is faithful in supporting those He… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation.… — William Safire Copy Share Image
