Quotes on Calling

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.

Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.

You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.