#vocation

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift. ↗

— Mavis Gallant

#began #done #dream #father #fear

With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#career #communities #continues #edge #education

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it. ↗

— André Gide

#vocation #life

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. ↗

— George Sand

#heart #human #human heart #into #light

Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#vocation #work #faith

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#calling #job #vocation #life

God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will. ↗

— John Paul II

#redemption #salvation #vocation #love

Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#vocation #work #money

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#charity #disciples #excitement #few #less

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