Vocation Discernment Quotes

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love. ~ Therese Of Lisieux

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment
discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level. ~ Jim George

Discernment gives you the ability to both appreciate the subtle beauty of a Renoir and spot a fake. ~ Hannah Anderson

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment ... ~ Pliny The Younger

Never make sport, no matter how lighthearted, of someone's vocation. ~ Rodney Ross

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

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. ~ Mother Teresa

Every true gospel vocation is a resurrection vocation that arrives after a passage through the belly of the fish. All "word of God" vocations are thus formed. There can be no authentic vocation that is not shaped by passage through some such interior. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark. ~ Elder David A. Bednar

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment. ~ Laozi

Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation.
Charles: I don't know what that means.
Cordelia: It means you can be a nun. If you haven't a vocation it's no good however much you want to be; and if you have a vocation, you can't get away from it, however much you hate it. ~ Evelyn Waugh

Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. ~ Julia Glass

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it. ~ Cate Blanchett

To be active is the primary vocation of man. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Then, overcome by joy, I cried, 'Jesus, my love. At last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love. In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and then I will be all things. ~ Therese De Lisieux

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it. ~ Hannah More

Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others. ~ Mother Teresa

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher. ~ T.F. Hodge

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer. ~ Paulo Coelho

My vocation is to make my life an act of worship ~ Ashley Judd

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. ~ George Santayana

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers ~ Euripides

Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion. ~ Nhat Hanh

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created. ~ Joan Halifax

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation. ~ Chynna Phillips

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

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation. ~ Aristotle.

Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation ~ Pope Francis

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry. ~ Kevin Cramer

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation. ~ Edith Wharton

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. ~ Jean Rostand

Each person has a unique and unrepeatable vocation. If it is not discovered, embraced, and lived, it is lost to the world forever. ~ Luke Burgis

We should remember that with such preparatory reading, a good pace to maintain is to try and finish a book every week or two. This may seem intimidating at first, and if it were considered a hobby, it would be overwhelming. But the task is the education of your children, which is not a hobby but a vocation. The word vocation comes from the Latin verb voco, which means "I call." A person's vocation is his calling; a parent's vocation is to learn in order to teach. ~ Wesley Callihan

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ~ Lord Byron

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself. ~ Stephen Cope

One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves. ~ Anne Hill

To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart. ~ Oswald Chambers

The two skills of the warrior are compassion and insight. Compassion is easy - it arises spontaneously from an open heart. Insight or discernment requires more skill. We have to choose our battles. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. ~ Anne Rice

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

A spirit of suspicion is not the gift of discernment. ~ R. Alan Woods

We should use discernment to connect dots, avoid traps, and make wise judgments without becoming too judgmental, suspicious, and faultfinders. ~ Assegid Habtewold

Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power. ~ James O'Dea

My vocation to preach on paper. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone. ~ Pope Francis

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love. ~ Emmanuelle Beart

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard. ~ Lewis B. Smedes

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God. ~ Saint Basil

Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do. ~ Joyce Rachelle

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies. ~ Criss Jami

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

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world. ~ Nita Ambani

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. ~ Elvis Costello

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

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life. ~ Tony Dungy

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation. ~ Brassai

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. ~ Georges Simenon

To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants. ~ Criss Jami

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck. ~ John Carroll

The ambitious man has never found his true vocation ... ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive. ~ Criss Jami

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent. ~ Gertrude Atherton

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy. ~ Frederick Buechner

Farming
a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it. ~ Gustave Flaubert

Our work is a vocation to which we have been called from the beginning of time. When we work we are partaking in and joining with God's ongoing creation of the world. ~ Peggy Noonan

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability. ~ August Bournonville

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment. ~ Julian Baggini

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 well by his subjects. ~ Voltaire

The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs. ~ Eric Greitens

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture. ~ Louise Erdrich

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings. ~ Marjo-Riikka Makela

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind? ~ Sir Fulke Greville

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. ~ Mark Twain

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships. ~ Joyce Meyer

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship. ~ Alan Keyes

Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed. ~ Donald Trump

Don't romanticise your 'vocation'. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle'. All that matters is what you leave on the page. ~ Zadie Smith

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live. ~ Thomas Merton

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do. ~ Nick Cannon

True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable. ~ Akkineni Nagarjuna

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance. ~ Anne Rice

Vocation is more a calling than a job ~ Andreas Widmer The Pope And The CEO

A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail. ~ Cinda Williams Chima

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Make your vacation your vocation. ~ Mark Twain

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus. ~ Brennan Manning

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them. ~ Harriet Martineau

The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation. ~ Coleman Sellers II

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success. ~ Mark Twain

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation. ~ Rick Warren

Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter. ~ John Piper

God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment. ~ Pope Francis

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation. ~ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe