Benjamin Moser on vocation
Benjamin Moser5 quotes“Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.”
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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.
Al JardineAl Jardine We believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people,
Adolfo Perez EsquivelAdolfo Perez Esquivel This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
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