Hill Harper Quotes

When you are called, you serve

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.

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

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.

For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.

I am not called to be successful, I am called to be faithful.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

Work to me is a sacred thing.

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.

Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

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

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

We're big fans of the idea that faith without works is dead.

As long as God gives me the strength to still minister and create, I'll do it.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

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.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith.

The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.

I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.