Quotes about Vocation

Although he eventually chose theology over music, music remained a deep passion throughout his life. It became a vital part of his expression of faith, and he taught his students to appreciate it and make it a central aspect of their expressions of faith.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

I'm not sure what the Lord has in store for my future, but I can say for certain that music is not my life. Christ is my life. I love writing, singing, and playing songs that He gives me to share, but whatever He has for me in five or ten years, I want to be willing to step into it. I never want to hold so tightly to my vocation that I lose out on His higher plan.

I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

The Puritan divine Richard Steele wrote, God doth call every man and woman…to serve him in some peculiar employment in this world, both for their own and the common good.…The Great Governor of the world hath appointed to every man his proper post and province.

The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc.

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

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.