Vocation Quotes
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The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our daily bread by means of the farmer the banker, the cooks, And the lady at the check-out counter. He creates new life - the most amazing miracle of all - by means of mothers and fathers. He protects us by means of the police officers, firemen, and our military. He creates. Through artists. He heals by working through doctors, nurses, and others whom He has gifted, equipped, and called to the medical professions.
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There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.
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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
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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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Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.
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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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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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Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.
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The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.
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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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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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I don’t think I have really got much of a vocation for peacetime soldiering
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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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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
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Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
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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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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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Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
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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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The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.
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Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor.
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God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.