And when each of the four did talk about it, there was the sense in every case that the desire to be understood, in a sea of misunderstanding, was the impulse that led them to pursue their vocation in the first place.
The original move to St Ives was more like a desperate evacuation, and for many years afterwards Hepworth fought for the time and space to pursue her vocation.
This has produced a growing number of young, professional community organisers for whom supporting citizens' alliances is a vocation.
After a brief stint in surgery, he discovered his true vocation in A&E and paediatrics.
At this stage Courtois had still not found his true vocation and was playing as a left-back for Genk's youth team.
Have you ever thought about changing your vocation?" BS: "Presently, I think policing is still satisfactory, I am satisfied with my job".
Instead of limiting access to education in order to keep such jobs the exclusive domain of the upper classes (a practice America had recently begun to justify by means of a controversial new idea called "intelligence tests"), Lippmann argued that Americans must decide that skilled labour was a proper vocation for educated people.
It draws upon ideas of virtue and vocation in the economy that are out of fashion, but necessary for our country as we defend ourselves from a repetition of the vices that led to the financial crash and its subsequent debt and deficit.
Since then, royal heirs – and most particularly spares – have continued to find a vocation in the army, navy and airforce.
He describes the queen and her strong sense of vocation, as a monarch "God-called" to give her life to her people as a sacrifice.
Known as the "soldiers of Christ" after the military bearing of their founder (who discovered his vocation, it is claimed, after reading a book on the lives of the saints in a hospital when recovering from war wounds) the order emphasises education, particularly their belief in the importance of learning languages, and the need for missionary evangelism in the life of a priest.
