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
Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation. — Henry James 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
The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation. — John Tesh Copy Share Image
To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation. — Lawrence Reed 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 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
“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 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
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
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
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Difference between a vocation and a category. Those who fulfill their vocation to sanctity--or who are fulfilling it--are by that very fact… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of vocation or calling gained currency as men began to take time and history seriously. If the goal of the… — R.J. Rushdoony 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
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
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
... 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
“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
“There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“This is the divine vocation into which you have been redeemed: “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good… — W. Ian Thomas 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
“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
“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
“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
“In any love-story there are usually two stages or phases. There is the initial stage, where love is expressed by the giving… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
