... 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
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
“You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the… — Joan Didion 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
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
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am… — Sidney Lanier 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
When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student,… — Stanley Fish 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
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
“(from chapter 19, "Willi Ossa") "...when I did [become a pastor], I knew that it was a vocation, not a job. I… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Then, overcome by joy, I cried, 'Jesus, my love. At last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love. In the… — St. Thérèse de Lisieux Copy Share Image
I have faith that if we caught hold of God's living candle on that truth and went out into the world-I don't… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop them… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation. — David Kim Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
