Quotes about Vocation

Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life. They're not yours to do with as you please. They're Christ's.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear."

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life…. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

I was lucky - I found what I love to do early in life.

Every true gospel vocation is a resurrection vocation that arrives after a passage through the belly of the fish. All "word of God" vocations are thus formed. There can be no authentic vocation that is not shaped by passage through some such interior.