QUOTATION: Your Vocation

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you.

 --Dorothy Day

QUOTATION: Basic Training

There are those who assert that the medical training of the Missionaries of Charity is too rudimentary for people who care for the seriously ill. I know that. Our medical training is limited, but we try to offer assistance and care to those who, in most cases, have no one to give them even the most basic medical care. 

--Mother Teresa of Calcutta, No Greater Love

QUOTATION: Your Vocation

Nothing should make you love your vocation more than being nailed to the Cross.

--St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Conferences and Instructions

QUOTATION: A Religious Sister's Vocation

Many people say that we should work with social programs and with development programs; we are not here for that. Let everyone do what each can. I beg you sisters, never get mixed up. Love is for today, programs are for the future.

--Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Where There is Love, There is God, Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., Ed.

QUOTATION: Live Your Vocation

He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labours much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: Vocation

It is important that you choose your career with care, so that you may really follow the vocation that God has destined for you. No day should pass without some prayer to this end. Often repeat with St. Paul: "Lord, what will you have me do?"

--St. John Bosco

QUOTATION: Purpose

God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission - I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.

--Blessed John Henry Newman

QUOTATION: Serving God

Above all, let us bend all our energies to serve God in the way he wishes. This remark is made so that we may avoid the mistake of him who wastes his time in idle day-dreaming. Such a one says, "If I were to become a hermit, I would become a saint" or "If I were to enter a monastery, I would practice penance" or "If I were to go away from here, leaving friends and companions, I would devote long hours to prayer." If, If, If--all these if's! In the meantime such a person goes from bad to worse. These idle fancies are often temptations of the devil, because they are not in accord with God's will. Hence we should dismiss them summarily and rouse ourselves to serve God only in that way which he has marked out for us. Doing his holy will, we shall certainly become holy in those surroundings in which he has placed us.


--St. Alphonsus Liguori, Uniformity with God’s Will

QUOTATION: Perfection in One's Vocation

To be perfect in our vocation is nothing else than to fulfil the duties which our state of life obliges us to perform, and to accomplish them well, and only for the honor and love of God.

--St. Francis de Sales