I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.
I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.