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
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.” — Anonymous 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
When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation. — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent. — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling. — Cornel West 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
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
“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 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
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
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch… — Elaine N. Aron Copy Share Image
“Our task, as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to the world that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
We have only to see how that which makes up the reality of our lives relates to our vocation; we have only… — Jean Danielou Copy Share Image
“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare… — Rebecca Solnit 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
... 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
“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
“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
We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities,… — William James 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
“And the strange thing was he had never loved her more than in that moment, because at that moment she had become… — James Jones Copy Share Image
There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He will.” — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The purpose of one's vocation, whatever it might be, is serving others. — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. — Anonymous 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
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human? — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
