I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up – late.

I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman’s noose.

And the strange thing was he had never loved her more than in that moment, because at that moment she had become himself.But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, not what...

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It’s a vicious cycle.

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a ‘means of livelihood’ while he waits to discover his ‘true vocation’. The world...

I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he...

(Theodore) Roosevelt considered his experience with ‘fellow ranchmen on what was then the frontier’ to be ‘the most educational asset’ of his entire life, instrumental to his success in becoming president.

I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and association. Calling resists polarization by requiring an attitude toward, and action in, society...

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in...

God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does.

The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.

When the maker’s (or fixer’s) activity is immediately situated within a community of use, it can be enlivened by this kind of direct perception. Then the social character of his work isn’t separate from its...

You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important thing you own — never deny that for an instant — it has...

Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.

The point of the calling was, quite simply, that it was appointed by God to serve neighbors. If along the way some self-fulfillment came as well, there was nothing wrong with that, but it was...

When you get your,’Who am I?’, question right, all of your,’What should I do?’ questions tend to take care of themselves

In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student, “Do you think I could be a writer?” “‘Well,’ the writer said, ‘do...

A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but...

In any love-story there are usually two stages or phases. There is the initial stage, where love is expressed by the giving of gifts, especially the gift of self. Then there comes a time when...

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

Your calling is to be faithful to God where you are, and in doing this all work is sacred, spiritual, and worthy of your full attention and energy. When you get to work, you are...

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their...

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

Often we want to be somewhere other than where we are, to even to be someone other than who we are. We tend to compare ourselves constantly with others and wonder why we are not...

the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do

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...

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it.

It’s not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It’s about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts…

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

The only Christian work is good work well done.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable...

Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is conquered by the fire of His gaze, no sacrifice seems too great to...

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...

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated...

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...

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision...

He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects; I had thought they became painters. My friend explained that it...

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,...

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the...

I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.