Quotes about Vocation

Your job is not merely a place to earn a paycheck. It is an arena in which God wants to use you to influence others for the kingdom.

Oswald Sanders asked, Should it not be the office that seeks the man, rather than the man the office?2

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work that you need most to do and the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement, but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement.

To find our calling is to find the intersection between our own deep gladness and the world's deep hunger.

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

The depth of a priest's compassion is the measure of his apostolic success.

They want a mission, a challenge! When we follow the type of advertising appeal used by Madison Avenue to sell toothpaste, when we use commercial techniques in our vocation literature, do not the hearts of the young spurn our distance from the Cross? Do not we recruit fruits of propaganda rather than fruits worthy of penance?

Work is therapy for the soul.

What art and profession soever thou hast learned, endeavour to affect it, and comfort thyself in it; and pass the remainder of thy life as one who from his whole heart commits himself and whatsoever belongs unto him, unto the gods: and as for men, carry not thyself either tyrannically or servilely towards any.