Quotes about Vocation
As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
— 2 Corinthians 6:1
I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.
— Paulo Coelho
We all need to be aware of our personal calling. What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend.
— Paulo Coelho
The greatness of work is inside man.
— Pope John Paul II
Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions.
— Robin Sharma
The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn't devote his life to it of his own free will.
— Steven Pressfield
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
— Wendell Berry
If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.
— Charles Hodge
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
— Pope John Paul II