Quotes About Vocation

When people ask what I do, I say: "I'm a teacher." or: "I proofread legal documents." or: "I hand out jalapeño humus dip at Trader Joe's." I say, to myself, mostly: "I'm alive, motherfucker. What else do you want?"

Strive to be faithful to that which God has called you.

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

You shouldn't go to college unless God has definitely called you to go.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.

Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

God blessed me to play football.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job.

Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.

If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.