The human self also has a nature, limits as well as potentials. If you seek vocation without understanding the material you are working with, what you build with your life will be ungainly and may...

The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person’s moral predicament as that of a steward. But this predicament is hopeless and meaningless unless it produces an appropriate discipline: stewardship....

As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

The curse of the fall didn’t affect only manual work, as we often seem to think. Excessive ambiguity that prevent us from figuring out how to navigate is really a form of confusion. Overload is...

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as “seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

Films are not primarily an entertainment medium. They are weapons. If you understand that, then you are ready to pursue filmmaking as a vocation.

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

I don’t care much whether I ever get to know anything – but I want to work out something in figures – something that hasn’t got to do with human beings. I don’t want people...

He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He will.

From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ orders. While this position can easily be interpreted as a claim for the desacralization of the sacred, it can equally well...

Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious...

Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: “I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was great in his vocation, buried like a king who had done...

Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your calling.

Nothing’s work unless you’d rather be doing something else.

And speaking of options ,these kids [the ones who attend elite universities] have all been told that theirs are limitless. Once you commit to something, though, that ceases to be true. A former student sent...

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

Human” is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the...

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people...

There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life, we are made for an act that gathers up all the powers and...

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

I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest...

Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God’s call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.

Don’t be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in,...

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.

The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our daily bread by means of the farmer the banker, the cooks, And the...

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.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be.

Teddy Roosevelt “had relished “every hour” of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the “dull thud” he would experience upon returning to private life.

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he seek: a clean parchment of the spirit whereon the words of a summons might be written in...

J.R.R. Tolkien tells a story of a man who was better at painting leaves than trees. In fact, the leaves he painted were painstaking and exquisite. He continued to feel a pull to make his...

Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel “underappreciated”?

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn’t be overlooked.

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...

(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 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...

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...

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

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

The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.

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