Vocation Quotes

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

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Business, Work

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• Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
  Ask and seek and you heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation.
  It is not what we do but how much love we put into it.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Enough

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• The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Fruit, Praying

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States”, p.37, Ignatius Press

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• Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

  Frederick Buechner

  Joy, Needs, World

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• God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Choices, Fulfillment

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• A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Wisdom, Men

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.99, Macmillan

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

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Jesus, Work

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• The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Rights, Justice

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Way, Worthy

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• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Being Yourself, Work, Love Yourself

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• The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Success, Travel

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• Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Destiny, Work Out

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Fruit, Bears

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• We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and even to find Him, even though it may not appear to find Him. Gratitude and confidence and freedom from ourselves: these are signs that we have found our vocation and are living up to it even though everything else may seem to have gone wrong. They give us peace in any suffering. They teach us to laugh at despair. And we may have to.

  Thomas Merton

  Gratitude, Giving, Laughing

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.147, Shambhala Publications

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

  Frederick Buechner

  Healing, Godly, Generosity

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 14, 2016

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• To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

  Pope Francis

  Saint, Privilege

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• Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Two, Soul

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• Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful

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• Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each one of us is called to a special place in the Kingdom. If we find that place we will be happy. If we do not find it, we can never be completely happy. For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

  Thomas Merton

  Destiny, Special, Want

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.138, Shambhala Publications

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• It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Vacation, Needs, Need Sleep

  "Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future".

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• My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.

  Nick Cannon

  Vacation

  FaceBook post by Nick Cannon from Apr 20, 2014

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• You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

  Dorothy Day

  Joy, Knows

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• My first vocation was dance.

  Victoria Abril

  Firsts

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• The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

  Saint Basil

  God, Animal, Humans

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• Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Careers, Worry

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