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
We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we… — Mark Hart 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
Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Hence the vocation of the Church of Christ in the world, in political conflict and social strife, is inherently eschatological. The Church… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
“Our vocation is not something we do for God- which would put the burden on us to perform and achieve. Instead, it… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation. Charles: I don't know what that means. Cordelia: It means you can be a nun.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God's call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.” — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants… — Dwight Edwards Copy Share Image
The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law. — Ken Starr Copy Share Image
Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value for… — William J. Reilly, Ph.D Copy Share Image
Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
“God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left… — John Paul II Copy Share Image
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to… — Tabare Vazquez Copy Share Image
God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege.… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
