Quotes about Vocation

The call we have considered in this chapter is not just a call to ministry; it is a call to worship.

Fact 2: What is true about you as a person is also true about your work.

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.

An education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries.

in our Father's house are many mansions, and each of us must discover for himself the kind of religion and the amount of saintship which best comports with what he believes to be his powers and feels to be his truest mission and vocation.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

When we reduce the notion of "calling" to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

God has work for you to do.

If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.