Quotes About Vocation

Your purpose lies where your passion, wisdom and gifts meet and complement each other.

Success is the progressive discovery of your assignment

Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am.

When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

My sister is an ER doctor and my brother is a teacher.

If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers.

To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

A painter was asked why he became a painter. He replied, Because I love the smell of paint.

Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value.

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

The Church knows fully that its message is in harmony with the most secret desires of the human heart, when it champions the dignity of the human vocation, restoring hope to those who now despair of anything higher than their present lot. Its message, far from belittling man, secures the light, life and freedom of his development. Nothing other than this can satisfy the human heart: 'You have made us for yourself,' Lord, 'and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

His was the other road to freedom, that of dedication to his craft.

if the work of creating consistently leaves us depressed or drained, it is likely that we have somehow missed the path.

The right question is whether, when we undertake the work we believe to be our vocation, we experience the joy and humility that come only when God multiplies our work so that it bears thirty, sixty and a hundredfold beyond what we could expect from our feeble inputs.

It is a word for shared strength, comradeship and partnership—the sharing of power that enabled both Peter and Paul to fulfill their vocations as ambassadors of the gospel across the Roman Empire.

Sometimes I wished I could become a shoemaker too.

Yet even more than He made man and woman for the sake of work, He made work for the sake of man and woman— because only through work could they become truly godlike. It's

they can still think of their daily work as an offering, their desk or anvil or stovetop as an "altar" to God, and they can still offer their work

Our Father GOD is the measure by which we know the shortcomings of earthly dads and earthly clergy; for their vocation is to be His image on earth. GOD allows them to fail so that we might seek perfect fatherhood in Him.

The God-given vocation of theology is to be a servant of the Truth, never his self-appointed master.

In divine union, work and play should rise to meet together as one. This is your calling. "To me, work that does not rise to the level of play is flawed work and play that is simply an escape from the expenditure of effort is flawed play," says Capon. "Play is the sovereign category, not work. If we have any final vocation, any ultimate calling, it is into that play.