Quotes About Vocation

The fact that you can do something doesn't me you are called to do it

You were born into the world to fulfill a specific purpose in life. May you recognised your unique calling.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

A career may end with retirement and lots of "toys." A calling isn't over until the day you die.

Taking time apart. The first and perhaps most obvious examples are the occasions when Jesus explicitly pursued time apart. These came in the form of stepping back and away from the outward ministry and into a space of reflection, silence, and walking—being alone. We may envision these as the "times in the desert." What they point to, at essence, are spaces to reconnect with the deeper inner voice, that spirit of purpose and vocation, and time to breathe, pray, and reflect.

Christians do not just go to work. They go to work "with God". They do not just do a job. They do their job "with God".

It is true that God can be known and enjoyed in every legitimate vocation; but when he deploys you from one place to the next, he offers fresh and deeper drinking at the fountain of his fellowship. God seldom calls us to an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of his sustaining grace.

But it's different with pastors-not totally different, but different. The heart is the instrument of our vocation. Charles Spurgeon said, "Ours is more than mental work-it is heart work, the labor of our inmost soul." When a pastor's heart is breaking, therefore, he must labor with a broken instrument. Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

But don't you know, Mr Stoner?' Sloane asked. 'Don't you understand about yourself yet? You're going to be a teacher.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

Once I had recognized that it was not my vocation to write a happy ending, I did my damnedest to avoid one entirely. I once referred to this process as "Messing up my life, so I could write stupid little songs about it," and I can't improve on that description here, but then songs are never exactly taken from life.

Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits anyone who, answering to his vocation and fulfilling it, exerts himself within history; only the man who sacrifices every gift and talent escapes: released from his humanity, he may lodge himself in Being. (...) One always perishes by the self one assumes: to bear a name is to claim an exact mode of collapse.

Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.

So of course when it came time to decide what to do with my life, I decided to go to seminary. What else do you do when you are in love with God?

A priest is a priest, no matter where she happens to be. Her job is to recognize the holiness in things and hold them up to God. Her job is to speak in ways that help other people recognize the holiness in things too.

The basic principle is to do no harm. Beyond that, you are free to do quite a lot of things for a living, but they are not all going to come with their own evident purposes. Supplying that purpose is going to be up to you.

Think hard before you do this," one said to me when I told him I wanted to be ordained. "Right now, you have the broadest ministry imaginable. As a layperson, you can serve God no matter what you do for a living, and you can reach out to people who will never set foot inside a church. Once you are ordained, that is going to change. Every layer of responsibility you add is going to narrow your ministry, so think hard before you choose a smaller box.

You might find the perfect combination of all your interests and have a very enjoyable career. Or you might discover that what you really love is learning itself.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

I had found my niche working in a trade I love with reasonable hours.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.