Frederick Buechner Quotes

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

I think my writing is part of my ministry.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

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.

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.