When I was in high school I thought a vocation was a particular calling. Here's a voice: "Come, follow me." My idea of a calling now is not: "Come." It's ... what I'm doing right now, not what I'm going to be. Life is a calling.
- Rebecca Sweeney, an American who held a variety of jobs, including six years as a nun
I have not the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers ... Unable either to say them all or choose between them, I do as a child would do who cannot read -- I say just what I want to say to God, quite simply, and [God] never fails to understand.
- Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, French Carmelite nun, canonized in 1925
