vocation

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
7ed0dcb	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...	artist career creative creativity life living vocation	Madeleine L'Engle
d466274	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, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.	creativity teaching vocation	Madeleine L'Engle
f776ac5	It's hard luck always having to be a judge.	vocation	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
b7ad89c	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 as rich, as intelligent, as simple, as generous, or as saintly as they are. Such comparisons make us feel guilty, ashamed, or jealous. It is very important to realize that our vocation is hidden in where we are and who we are. We are unique human beings, each with a call to realize in life what nobody else can, and to realize it in the concrete context of the here and now. We will never find our vocations by trying to figure out whether we are better or worse than others. We are good enough to do what we are called to do. Be yourself!	comparison uniqueness vocation	Henri J.M. Nouwen
c6ede1d	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 ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.	vocation writing	Rebecca Solnit
d63dc34	Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling had one all Time to live in! I should be fifty Years a Barrister, fifty a Physician, fifty a Clergyman, fifty a Soldier! Aye, and fifty a Thief, and fifty a Judge! All Roads are fine Roads, beloved Sister, none more than another, so that with one Life to spend I am a Man bare-bumm'd at Taylors with Cash for but one pair of Breeches, or a Scholar at Brookstalls with Money for a single Book: to choose ten were no Trouble; to choose one, impossible! All Trades, all Crafts, all Professions are wondrous, but none is finer than the rest together. I cannot choose, sweet Anna: twixt Stools my Breech falleth to the Ground!	john-barth vocation	John Barth
28fd847	earn what you can since everything's for sale	desperation opportunity profession vocation	Geoffrey Chaucer
b2a1012	Passion does not translate easily into good income.	calling hobby job temperament vocation	Philip Zaleski
fba88e1	I bent my head and breathed the fresh new scent of her. I looked into her deep blue eyes and saw reflected there the dawn of my own new life. This little girl seemed to me, at that moment, answer enough to all my questions. To have saved this small, singular one--this alone seemed reason enough that I lived. I knew then that this was how I was meant to go on: away from death and toward life, from birth to birth, from seed to blossom, living my life amongst wonders.	vocation wonder	Geraldine Brooks
b16f4c9	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 be understood as a claim for the sacralization of the secular. As early as 1520, Luther had laid the fundamental conceptual foundations for created sacred space within the secular. His doctrine of the 'priesthood of all believers' asserted that there is no genuine difference of status between the 'spiritual' and the 'temporal' order. All Christians are called to be priests - and can exercise that calling within the everyday world. The idea of 'calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world.	christianity martin-luther priesthood-of-all-believers protestantism sacred secular vocation work	Alister E. McGrath
34d35a0	I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.	enthusiasm job vocation work	Geoff Dyer
7b8d487	Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.	discipleship idolatry vocation work worship	Harold Bloom
69bcc0c	"Once a seminary student asked to shadow me for two days to see what my life as a pastor was like. At the end, he said, "Oh my gosh, you're basically a person for a living." --	pastoral-ministry pastoring vocation	Nadia Bolz-Weber
9dc54c4	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 was not proper to become a painter; it couldn't be done. I resigned myself to architecture school and a long life of drawing buildings. It was a pity, for I disliked buildings, considering them only a stiffer and more ample form of clothing, and no more important.	drawing painting vocation	Annie Dillard
a1a5b61	I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.	job vocation	Claire Messud
edd1884	The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.	motivation unemployment vocation welfare-state work	Charles Murray
8f9bc1c	If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.	pride vocation	Edgar Rice Burroughs
0dc7303	"Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed."	job leisure relaxation vocation	Robert A. Caro
f8e27be	He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.	depression distraction vocation work	H.W. Brands
2e080c0	If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.	fighter pride vocation	Edgar Rice Burroughs
a7f21d4	If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.	distraction focus job ministry vocation	Barbara W. Tuchman
c0b90ed	Duty was not untinged by ambition.	goal-setting leadership vocation work	Barbara W. Tuchman
c10fc03	How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII	calling grace-of-god job vocation	Barbara W. Tuchman
a71257d	"The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand."	job relationships vocation	Robert A. Caro
c1ffe74	Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. - Madeleine Albright	humility job leadership priorities stewardship vocation	Walter Isaacson
119fb1d	Even his own speeches bored him.	charisma enthusiasm job passion vocation	Barbara W. Tuchman
8bd22c6	After some pondering, I made a decision that would affect all of my future work and writing in more ways than I could ever have anticipated. It was a decision between seminary and college teaching. More so it was a decision between two very different cultures of New England and the Southwest. I chose seminary teaching in Texas, which was a decision some of my colleague on the East Coast thought was foolish. From then on, as long as I was in the Southwest, I would feel the sting of the silent condescension and stereo typing by Eastern elites who disdained southwestern American culture. Many viewed as inconsequential everything that happened west of the Hudson River. What they disparaged was exactly what I loved, the easy going, unpretentious, common culture of my native landscape in Oklahoma and Texas.	teaching-the-faith vocation	Thomas C. Oden

7ed0dcb

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...

artist career creative creativity life living vocation

Madeleine L'Engle

d466274

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, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

creativity teaching vocation

Madeleine L'Engle

f776ac5

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

vocation

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

b7ad89c

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 as rich, as intelligent, as simple, as generous, or as saintly as they are. Such comparisons make us feel guilty, ashamed, or jealous. It is very important to realize that our vocation is hidden in where we are and who we are. We are unique human beings, each with a call to realize in life what nobody else can, and to realize it in the concrete context of the here and now. We will never find our vocations by trying to figure out whether we are better or worse than others. We are good enough to do what we are called to do. Be yourself!

comparison uniqueness vocation

Henri J.M. Nouwen

c6ede1d

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 ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.

vocation writing

Rebecca Solnit

d63dc34

Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling had one all Time to live in! I should be fifty Years a Barrister, fifty a Physician, fifty a Clergyman, fifty a Soldier! Aye, and fifty a Thief, and fifty a Judge! All Roads are fine Roads, beloved Sister, none more than another, so that with one Life to spend I am a Man bare-bumm'd at Taylors with Cash for but one pair of Breeches, or a Scholar at Brookstalls with Money for a single Book: to choose ten were no Trouble; to choose one, impossible! All Trades, all Crafts, all Professions are wondrous, but none is finer than the rest together. I cannot choose, sweet Anna: twixt Stools my Breech falleth to the Ground!

john-barth vocation

John Barth

28fd847

earn what you can since everything's for sale

desperation opportunity profession vocation

Geoffrey Chaucer

b2a1012

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

calling hobby job temperament vocation

Philip Zaleski

fba88e1

I bent my head and breathed the fresh new scent of her. I looked into her deep blue eyes and saw reflected there the dawn of my own new life. This little girl seemed to me, at that moment, answer enough to all my questions. To have saved this small, singular one--this alone seemed reason enough that I lived. I knew then that this was how I was meant to go on: away from death and toward life, from birth to birth, from seed to blossom, living my life amongst wonders.

vocation wonder

Geraldine Brooks

b16f4c9

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 be understood as a claim for the sacralization of the secular. As early as 1520, Luther had laid the fundamental conceptual foundations for created sacred space within the secular. His doctrine of the 'priesthood of all believers' asserted that there is no genuine difference of status between the 'spiritual' and the 'temporal' order. All Christians are called to be priests - and can exercise that calling within the everyday world. The idea of 'calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world.

christianity martin-luther priesthood-of-all-believers protestantism sacred secular vocation work

Alister E. McGrath

34d35a0

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

enthusiasm job vocation work

Geoff Dyer

7b8d487

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

discipleship idolatry vocation work worship

Harold Bloom

69bcc0c

"Once a seminary student asked to shadow me for two days to see what my life as a pastor was like. At the end, he said, "Oh my gosh, you're basically a person for a living." --

pastoral-ministry pastoring vocation

Nadia Bolz-Weber

9dc54c4

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 was not proper to become a painter; it couldn't be done. I resigned myself to architecture school and a long life of drawing buildings. It was a pity, for I disliked buildings, considering them only a stiffer and more ample form of clothing, and no more important.

drawing painting vocation

Annie Dillard

a1a5b61

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

job vocation

Claire Messud

edd1884

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

motivation unemployment vocation welfare-state work

Charles Murray

8f9bc1c

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.

pride vocation

Edgar Rice Burroughs

0dc7303

"Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed."

job leisure relaxation vocation

Robert A. Caro

f8e27be

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

depression distraction vocation work

H.W. Brands

2e080c0

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.

fighter pride vocation

Edgar Rice Burroughs

a7f21d4

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

distraction focus job ministry vocation

Barbara W. Tuchman

c0b90ed

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

goal-setting leadership vocation work

Barbara W. Tuchman

c10fc03

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

calling grace-of-god job vocation

Barbara W. Tuchman

a71257d

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

job relationships vocation

Robert A. Caro

c1ffe74

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. - Madeleine Albright

humility job leadership priorities stewardship vocation

Walter Isaacson

119fb1d

Even his own speeches bored him.

charisma enthusiasm job passion vocation

Barbara W. Tuchman

8bd22c6

After some pondering, I made a decision that would affect all of my future work and writing in more ways than I could ever have anticipated. It was a decision between seminary and college teaching. More so it was a decision between two very different cultures of New England and the Southwest. I chose seminary teaching in Texas, which was a decision some of my colleague on the East Coast thought was foolish. From then on, as long as I was in the Southwest, I would feel the sting of the silent condescension and stereo typing by Eastern elites who disdained southwestern American culture. Many viewed as inconsequential everything that happened west of the Hudson River. What they disparaged was exactly what I loved, the easy going, unpretentious, common culture of my native landscape in Oklahoma and Texas.

teaching-the-faith vocation

Thomas C. Oden