Frederick Buechner Needs Quotations

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

The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet

What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs.

The world needs people who save lives.

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.