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• The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her.

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, Faithful, Unity

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• Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and technology. Many recent discoveries have brought undeniable benefits to humanity. Indeed, they demonstrate the nobility of the human vocation to participate responsibly in God's creative action in the world. Unfortunately, it is now clear that the application of these discoveries in the fields of industry and agriculture have produced harmful long-term effects.

  Pope John Paul II

  Character, Technology, Agriculture

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• There is a good look that I wear
  like a blood clot. I have
  sewn it over my left breast.
  I have made a vocation of it.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Blood, Looks

  Anne Sexton, “Again And Again And Again”

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• Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Important

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• If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better father, you will be a better student, a better worker in your chosen vocation. Love is of the essence of this missionary work. Selflessness is of its very nature. Self-discipline is its requirement. Prayer opens its reservoir of power.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Husband, Father

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• Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching of creation to mankind. All honor to the man who treats it sacredly; who studies, as in God's presence, the thoughts of God which are expressed to him; and makes all things according to the pattern which he is ever ready to show to earnest and reverent genius on the mount.

  Jason 'J' Brown

  Teaching, Artist, Men

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• Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.

  Satish Kumar

  Clothes, Needs, Purpose

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

  Frederick Buechner

  Lying, Joy, Needs

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• True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Sacrifice, Two

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “On the Significance of Science and Art”, p.65, The Floating Press

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• Many people don't understand the difference between a vocation and your own idea about something. A vocation is a call-one you don't necessarily want. The only thing I ever wanted to be was an actress. But I was called by God.

  Dolores Hart

  Ideas, Differences, People

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• No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.

  Leon Botstein

  Artist, Faculty Members, Physicians

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• Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

  Frederick Buechner

  Joy, Needs, World

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• It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

  Brassai

  Photographer, Insight, Sociologists

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• No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things - the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold - were false to you.

  Beryl Markham

  Loneliness, Vanity, Tools

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• Pondering was the highest vocation... Pondering was a special kind of thinking. It was not done in the mind, that chilly place, but in the heart, where the real mystery of intelligence - intuition - rather than thought lay catlike and feminine, ready to pounce.

  Patricia Hampl

  Real, Heart, Thinking

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Virgin Time”

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• Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.

  Joe Sacco

  Cherish, Family Friends, Permanent

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• The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Teacher, Children, Oxygen

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photographer, Trade, Professional Photographer

  Elliott Erwitt (1998). “Dog dogs”

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• Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and in vocations are losing their identity under the influence of a secularized culture. The need for a new evangelization, so deeply felt by my venerable Predecessor, must be valiantly reaffirmed, in the certainty that God's word is effective.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Brother, Numbers, Identity

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• It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilisation.

  Pope Pius X

  Christian, Order, Faithful

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• I have faith that if we caught hold of God's living candle on that truth and went out into the world-I don't care [what vocation] -just out in the world being true to the vision, we would not need to defend the cause of Jesus Christ. People would come and ask; "Where have you found the radiance that I sense in your eyes and in your face? How come you don't get carried away with the world?" And we would answer that the work of salvation is the glorious work of Jesus Christ. But it is also the glorious work of the uncovering and recovering of your own latent divinity.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Jesus, Eye, People

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• The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.

  Coleman Sellers II

  Dollars, Cost, Economics

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• [Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, People, Christ

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• ...The baptized in their sense of mission, through prayer, the witness of life and Christian commitment in all its forms, so that all the faithful may become missionaries in the places where they live and that vocations will come forth to proclaim the Gospel to men who do not yet know it.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Prayer, Commitment

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• We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.

  Thomas Adams

  Eye, What Matters, Light

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.117

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