Quotes about Vocation
the church is, in my judgment, called to its public vocation to practice neighborliness in a way that includes both support of policies of distributive justice and practices of face-to-face restorative generosity.
— Walter Brueggemann
The only Christian work is good work well done.
— Dorothy Sayers
At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!
— Dorothy Sayers
Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
— George Bernard Shaw
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
— Cicero
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
— Cicero
Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.
— Thomas Merton
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
— William Hazlitt
The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.
— Loren Cunningham
The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.
— St. Basil