True Quotes

True devotion hinders no one, but rather it perfects everything, and whenever it is out of keeping with any person’s legitimate vocation, it must be spurious.

– St. Francis de Sales

Vocation is call.  If we devote ourselves, seemingly to doing God’s work, but it is at odds with our true vocation, then this devotion is not true.

A mother who is called to be home and to serve her family, and is instead, busy with things at church to the neglect of her family, is not living her vocation.  No matter how good her intentions are, no matter how helpful her works are.

Each of us has a call, a call from God. Practicing this vocation may not be glamorous, and sometimes it may not even be interesting, but it is our True Work. In deciding what other things we are to be involved in and to undertake, we must weigh each activity against the meaning and purpose of our True Work. And in the act of weighing, we find a balance, and this is the key.

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