#vocation

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) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#prayer #vocation #work #art

I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#mentoring #talent #vocation #art

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone. ↗

— Edith Stein

#been #dear #everyone #god #join

Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#christianity #vocation #workplace #worldview #life

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#corporate #vocation #career

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum. ↗

— Philip Greenspun

#computer science #curriculum #easier #formal #get

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#any #continued #i #love #out

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. ↗

— Neil Simon

#comedy #degrees #fact #generally #get

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#felt #i #power #strongly #very

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

#calling #consider #education #had #i