The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation. — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do. — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God. — Saint Basil 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
I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that's unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a… — Henri Nouwen 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
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation,… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people,… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
What happens is most of us are so busy in our lives with our families and our vocation which we should be,… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pondering was the highest vocation... Pondering was a special kind of thinking. It was not done in the mind, that chilly place,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow… — Mother Teresa 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
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“So vocation belongs to this world, not to heaven; it is directed toward one's neighbor, not toward God. This is an important… — Gustaf Wingren Copy Share Image
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably… — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
“My dear Mr FitzGeorge!' cried Lady Slane. 'You really mustn't talk as though my life had been a tragedy. I had everything… — Vita Sackville-West 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
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