Quotes about Vocation

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

The Puritan divine Richard Steele wrote, God doth call every man and woman…to serve him in some peculiar employment in this world, both for their own and the common good.…The Great Governor of the world hath appointed to every man his proper post and province.

The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.

Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.

Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.