The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her… — Elizabeth Prentiss 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 Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability. — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Films are not primarily an entertainment medium. They are weapons. If you understand that, then you are ready to pursue filmmaking as… — Isaac Botkin 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
“We often conceive of worldly life as merely a kind of default existence that anyone who is not specially called to monasticism… — Daniel G. Opperwall 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
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
“The church's task in the world is to model genuine humanness as a sign and an invitation to those around.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet… — Ivan Illich 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
Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings. — Marjo-Riikka Makela Copy Share Image
I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
