Quotes About Vocation

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

The nearer a soul is to God, the more it deserves our esteem; the closer the ties that bit it to us, the more sensible is our love for it, and the more whole-hearted should be the devotion we show in all that concerns family, country, vocation, and friendship. Thus, instead of destroying patriotism, charity exalts it, as we see in the case of St. Joan of Arc or St. Louis.

The Church has never been a scapegoat more than it is today. But one must see the symbolic value of this: whatever the Church may have lost by its compromises with the world, its enemies now give back by obliging it to play the same role as Christ. This is its true vocation. And now that it has been reaffirmed, it will enable the Church to shake off the indolence and decadence of the age that is now drawing to a close. MSB

the church is to find its identity and vocation by recognizing its role within the cosmic drama of God's reconciliation of the world to himself.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

Divinity students always fought in these peaked caps, as a scar would terminate their careers.

So man is to work and, generally speaking, he is to marry.

Why she hankered to be a teacher, I couldn't tell you. But she had chalk dust in her veins, and she deserved to get that certificate. It was only fair.

What decided him (almost invariably) was a college project in which he had occasion to do some independent research—to find out things for himself. Once he discovered the pleasures of this kind of work, he never turned back. He is completely satisfied with his chosen vocation. . . . He works hard and devotedly in his laboratory, often seven days a week.

Following Jesus is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world. To allow what God for some reason allows—and uses. And to suffer ever so slightly what God suffers eternally. Often, this has little to do with believing the right things about God—beyond the fact that God is love itself.

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don't suffocate your heart.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour.

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

These the seeds of vocation. From these he had fled into love, but now the love had grown cold, and in the night he heard it whistling through the chambers of his heart like a lost and gently crying wind.

'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

As if his whole vocationWere endless imitation.

La fortune, comme l,infortune, est une épreuve, et notre vocation est de la surmonter. (p.315)

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

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Fine-looking young chap, isn't he? Would have cut quite a dash as a dragoon but for his vocation as a virgin.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.