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Vocation Quotes by Thomas Merton
- We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and…
- Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each…
- Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one…
- Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does…
- A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
- Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own…
- Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood'…
More Vocation Quotes
- The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by… — Wendell Berry
- If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their… — Mother Teresa
- I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with… — Josemaria Escriva
- When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it. — Cate Blanchett
- I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young,… — Hugo Chavez
- Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing… — Winston Churchill
- 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
- My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name… — Anne Rice