“We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is to not know who we are intended to be or what we are supposed to serve in life.”
“There comes a time when even the thing you love betrays you...you have to know when it s time to give it up, I suppose. Doesn t mean you love it any less, of course. Just means it s time to move on. When you can t agree with the decisions that bind you, then you have to take your talents elsewhere.”
“Calling connects with passion.”
“...we find our vocations not by focusing on ourselves, but by focusing on others.”
“We must wake up. If we are going to find our callings, we must live intentionally and audaciously. And we must be generous. This choice is not an easy one, and it doesn t come naturally, but it s how we were meant to live. It s the only way - I m quite convinced of this - that we can find the satisfaction we ve been searching for, the lives we ve been dreaming of. And although there are legitimate health, business, and psychological benefits to generous living, the most important one is this: generosity gives your life meaning.”
“We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the ‘possible’ is never bound by the ‘probable,’ and instead we’ve dutifully heeded the god of fear that incessantly says the ‘possible’ is anything but ‘probable.”
“Someday, Joseph said to his granddaughter, someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won t be able to prevent yourself; that s just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something happens and we have to respond.”
“Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.”
“What liberated our souls, we live to serve.”
“Liberation of sacred souls connects to specific service.”
“We have been chosen and called to be like Jesus Christ.”
“If you are going to find work worth doing - a vocation to fulfill and challenge you - you will have to encounter a reality bigger than yourself. It may not be what others say it should be or what you think, but it will come if you are looking for it... At times, the work you re called to do will be hard and confusing, but if you press in, you will see the purpose behind the pain. You will see how the whole experience is causing you to grow. And you will thank God for the whole journey.”
“God gives grace for good work.”
“God gives much grace for great work.”
“The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word.”
“Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless.”
“You are God’s masterpiece; and as long as you answer to His purpose for you, with faith and in prayer, He can never fail you.”