Quotes about Vocation

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

The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order or in a worldly profession.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

Following Jesus is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world. To allow what God for some reason allows—and uses. And to suffer ever so slightly what God suffers eternally. Often, this has little to do with believing the right things about God—beyond the fact that God is love itself.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Marriage is a vocation. You are called to it. Accept marriage, then, as a God-given task. Throw yourself into it with joy. Do it heartily, with faith, prayer, and thanksgiving.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.