Quotes about Vocations

People even lose their vocations because they find out that a man can spend forty or fifty or sixty years in a monastery and still have a bad temper.

— Thomas Merton

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.

— George Washington

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

— George Washington

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

— Pope Francis