Quotes about Vocation

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

At some point every person must hear from God, must know what God was calling him to do, apart from others.

Although he eventually chose theology over music, music remained a deep passion throughout his life. It became a vital part of his expression of faith, and he taught his students to appreciate it and make it a central aspect of their expressions of faith.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

I'm not sure what the Lord has in store for my future, but I can say for certain that music is not my life. Christ is my life. I love writing, singing, and playing songs that He gives me to share, but whatever He has for me in five or ten years, I want to be willing to step into it. I never want to hold so tightly to my vocation that I lose out on His higher plan.

I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

The Puritan divine Richard Steele wrote, God doth call every man and woman…to serve him in some peculiar employment in this world, both for their own and the common good.…The Great Governor of the world hath appointed to every man his proper post and province.