Francis de Sales Quotes

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

When work is what you love to do, it's not work - it's serving.

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

Work to me is a sacred thing.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

When you are called, you serve

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had.

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

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.

Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each one of us is called to a special place in the Kingdom. If we find that place we will be happy. If we do not find it, we can never be completely happy. For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

When you love something it's not a job anymore.

Labor is the handmaid of religion.

Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer - family, career, retirement, fame, food, friends. The essence of worship is experiencing Christ as gain. Or to use words that we love to use around here: it is savoring Christ, treasuring Christ, being satisfied with Christ.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.