vocation

The point of the calling was, quite simply, that it was appointed by God to serve neighbors. If along the way some self-fulfillment came as well, there was nothing wrong with that, but it was hardly the point of the calling.

If you are going to find work worth doing - a vocation to fulfill and challenge you - you will have to encounter a reality bigger than yourself. It may not be what others say it should be or what you think, but it will come if you are looking for it... At times, the work you're called to do will be hard and confusing, but if you press in, you will see the purpose behind the pain. You will see how the whole experience is causing you to grow. And you will thank God for the whole journey.

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.

We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is to not know who we are intended to be or what we are supposed to serve in life.

The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

it is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.

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

Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

Only God can make the common sacred.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

The curse of the fall didn't affect only manual work, as we often seem to think. Excessive ambiguity that prevent us from figuring out how to navigate is really a form of confusion. Overload is one of the forms that frustration takes. The inordinate challenges we face in knowledge work can be traced to the fall just as much as the challenges in manual work. Send it especially lies behind the villain of lack of fulfillment. The reason we lack fulfillment is because we aren't fulfilling our true purpose, that is because we have sinned and deviated from God's path.

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.