Quotes about Vocation
Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The call we have considered in this chapter is not just a call to ministry; it is a call to worship.
— Timothy Lane
Fact 2: What is true about you as a person is also true about your work.
— Dallas Willard
For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.
— Miroslav Volf
An education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries.
— Wendell Berry
in our Father's house are many mansions, and each of us must discover for himself the kind of religion and the amount of saintship which best comports with what he believes to be his powers and feels to be his truest mission and vocation.
— William James
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When we reduce the notion of "calling" to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
God has work for you to do.
— Max Lucado
If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.
— Os Guinness