Quotes about Vocation

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.

Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

people's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness. It always works that way. You will not be called to do something that you have no talent for. You will discover your purpose by finding and remaining in your strengths.

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

Consider the sense of fulfillment in the leaders of a company that is expanding, achieving its mission, giving vocational opportunities to men and women who yesterday didn't have any. They are watching the miracle

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.