Quotes about Vocation

Our vocation and professional work is not a second class activity, something we do just to put food on the table. It is the high calling for which we were originally created. The way we serve a Creator God is by being creative with the talents and gifts He has given us.

Our vocation is not something we do for God- which would put the burden on us to perform and achieve. Instead, it is a way we participate in God's work. For God himself is engaged not only in the work of salvation, but also in the work of preserving and maintaining His creation.

Calling is more than purely cultural, but it is also more than purely personal. Discover the meaning of calling and you discover the heart of the gospel itself.

Calling is the truth that God calls us to

Our life-purpose therefore comes from two sources at once—who we are created to be and who we are called to be. Not

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

Francis Schaeffer wrote, "A ministry such as teaching the Bible in a college is no higher calling intrinsically than being a businessman or doing something else.

About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.

and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.

if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach;

Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?