Quotes about Vocation
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
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
— Edith Stein
Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.
— Timothy Keller
I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.
— Angela Bassett
God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.
— Pope Francis
Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.
— Charles Spurgeon
I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
— Eugene Peterson
Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.
— Os Guinness