252 Quotes About Vocation

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation.Charles: I don't know what that means.Cordelia: It means you can be a nun. If you haven't a vocation it's no good however much you want to be; and if you have a vocation, you can't get away from it, however much you hate it.

There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high, eternal contest!

Our work is a vocation to which we have been called from the beginning of time. When we work we are partaking in and joining with God's ongoing creation of the world.

One can't quit working to better the world just because the world is old and set in its ways. The enormity of a job is no reason not to do the job.

If He is calling you to belong exclusively to Him, it is for your joy and for His glory. In His will is your peace." (pg. 7)

If He is calling you to belong exclusively to Him, it is for your joy and for His glory. In His will is your peace.

It has nothing to do with pay. Either you love what you are doing or... Look, I wrote for years, and I wasn't paid. My love carried me through all those years.

I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.