Quotes about Vocation

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. Its why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.

Everybody has a calling. Your real job in life is to figure out why you are here and get about the business of doing it. — Oprah

There ain't but one life worth livin and I was born to it.

The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that to work is to pray. (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.