Quotes about Vocation
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
- Edith Stein
Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.
- Timothy Keller
I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.
- Angela Bassett
Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.
- Charles Spurgeon
I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
- Eugene Peterson
Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.
- Os Guinness
(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.
- Os Guinness
If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.
- Timothy Keller
God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.
- Martin Luther