Posts tagged vocation
The Church does not live for herself but for the gospel, and it is always in the gospel that she finds the direction for her journey.
Pope Benedict XVI
Certainly we know our vocation if we are happy in our work. “Necessity” and “impulse” and “attraction” are the 3 signs, Caussade says, of the will of God.
Dorothy Day
You do not write the best you can for the sake of art, but for the sake of returning your talent increased to the invisible God to use or not use as he sees fit.
Flannery O’Connor
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are, to see through plastic sham to living, breathing reality, and to break down our defenses of self-protection in order to be free to receive and give love.
Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water
Certainly we know our vocation if we are happy in our work. “Necessity” and “impulse” and “attraction” are the 3 signs, Caussade says, of the will of God.
Dorothy Day
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are, to see through plastic sham to living, breathing reality, and to break down our defenses of self-protection in order to be free to receive and give love.
Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water
Vocation is responsibility and responsibility is a total response of the whole man to the whole of reality.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics (via dimathiel)
The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God’s kingdom would come on earth as in heaven. It was the ultimate Exodus event through which the tyrant was defeated, God’s people were set free and given their fresh vocation, and God’s presence was established in their midst in a completely new way for which the Temple itself was just an advance pointer.
N.T. Wright, Simply Jesus
Vocation puts an end to you in order to disclose your true end.
Richard Lischer (via invisibleforeigner)
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
