Divine Vocation Quotes

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

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.

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.

Everyone is called, everyone is sent out… The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.

It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.

I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching.

I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

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

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.