“Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.”

Source: The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives

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