252 Quotes About Vocation
- Author Walter M. Miller Jr.
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He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he seek: a clean parchment of the spirit whereon the words of a summons might be written in his solitude——if that other Immensurable Loneliness which was God stretched forth Its hand to touch his own tiny human loneliness and to mark his vocation there.
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- Author Rebecca Solnit
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Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.
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- Author R.E.Johnson
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A calling will become clearer when you take the first step. You may not know where it will take you, but to start a journey, all you need to do is to find the right path.
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- Author Parker J. Palmer
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We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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It is in embracing an unwavering adherence to Biblical principles that we will find a sustainable argument for the conviction that ‘sacrifice is the only sensible vocation.’ And it is the irresistible nature of that argument that can lift us above the incessantly gnawing desire to make ourselves the only vocation.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Sacrifice is the only sensible vocation.
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- Author Thomas Merton
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Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.
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- Author W.H. Auden
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In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.
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- Author Chris Damian
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It does not strike me as a good thing that the only person we can be so, so close to is the person we're dating.
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