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Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade—not outside it. Whatever we are called to "do" is not a "job" but a sacred vocation.
- Scot McKnight
Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.
- Theodore Roosevelt
But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,--or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Someone once said that scientists and prostitutes get paid for doing what they enjoy.
- Stephen Hawking
Orpah and Ruth; who will represent to us two sorts of professors of religion: Orpah, that sort that indeed make a fair profession, and seem to set out well, but dure but for a while, and then turn back; Ruth, that sort that are sound and sincere, and therefore are steadfast and persevering in the way that they have set out in.
- Jonathan Edwards
Soha does not like cooking but I like to cook. And since we are in the same profession, we have the same tastes in entertainment we like to watch the same shows on TV. The only thing that Soha is finicky about is her eating habits, which keep on changing. But we do give enough space to each other.
- Kunal Khemu
The self-control of passion, the reshaping of his image of the world, the elimination of the sense of merit, the change of language, the effect of his profession on the structure of his life, all hint at the depth of this crisis.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer
- Abraham Lincoln
I call writing a sacred profession because I believe God chose the written word to communicate with man.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.
- Ernest Hemingway
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
- Rose Kennedy
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
- William Booth