Vocation Quotes
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Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.
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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.
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Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching of creation to mankind. All honor to the man who treats it sacredly; who studies, as in God's presence, the thoughts of God which are expressed to him; and makes all things according to the pattern which he is ever ready to show to earnest and reverent genius on the mount.
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The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
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In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.
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Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.
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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
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At his funeral the priest's words applied signally to him: 'The Christian Brothers are a body of men who live without luxury, labour without emolument, and die without notice, that they might stamp God's image on the soul of youth. That surely is a splendid vocation.
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If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled
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It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.
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Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.
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Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.
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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
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The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
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The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
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I don’t think I have really got much of a vocation for peacetime soldiering
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Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.
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Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
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I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.
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Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.
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That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.
