John Piper Quotes

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

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 sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

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.

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

We always joke that our road crew will have to wheelchair us up onstage soon because this is what we do. This is what we love to do. This is what God put us on earth to do until the day we take our last breath.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

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

Sometimes I'm not even really quite sure why I do what I do - do I do it because I like to show that I'm an educated person to exploit these certain things artistically and, in my opinion, in a very smart way - or am I just a punk rock brat that likes pushing people's buttons and relishing in the negative reaction? I can't tell.

When you are born into a body that takes the image of another, you ask yourself a question much like the famous 'chicken and egg' conundrum. Do you take the form of he, or does he take the form of you?

I feel like I was born to make music.

Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

As an artist, I often wonder what my purpose is or why I do what I do.

I gave my life to Christ, and I thought that would be it for me, and He was, like, 'No, you're not finished with acting; acting is not finished with you. This is your talent. Go back into it, but you're going back into it with a heart that's not obsessive over it.'

I realised that acting is not my god.

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

I love what I do, and I never thought about doing anything else. I think my voice was bestowed upon me; it was a gift I was given. I just had to learn to understand how to use it.

A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game. You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

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

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.