Sentence examples for a calling from god from inspiring English sources

Arika Okrent on Johann Schleyer, a German priest who created Volapük, a heavily umlauted universal language, in response to a calling from God.

There, answering what he describes as "a calling from God," Bishop Ramirez, then a pastor, led a handful of people in bible studies.

But it also has connected me to teachers who work there because they love their students, view their work as a calling from God and earn less than $20,000 a year.

The bishops of the Episcopal Church on Monday approved a resolution by delegates at the 76th General Convention of the church in Anaheim, Calif., saying gay people may receive a calling from God to become members of the clergy.

DeLay discusses his childhood, traces his background in pest control and his start in politics, offers a confessional about his years of carousing and adultery (which stopped when he found God), talks about how he rose up the political ladder (he later came to believe it was not his choice but a calling from God) and defends himself against his many enemies.

The practice of science, once a calling from God or, perhaps, a mere amateur's hobby, has come into its own as a profession, particularly following World War II.

Similar arguments can be found in Sarah Blackborow's Just and Equall Ballance Discovered (1660), Fox's Concerning Sons and Daughters (1661), Dorothy White's A Call from God out of Egypt (1662), Katherine Evans A Brief Discoveryy of God's Eternal Truth (1663), and Fell's own work, A Call to the Universal Seed.

At a very early age, Milton brooded on his poetic vocation as if it were an actual calling from God.

By the time he received his calling from God, Václav Hálek was already firmly established as a concert pianist and composer in the Czechoslovakian classical music scene.

"That was pushed on me from many directions … and yet I felt no calling from God to move that way," he said.

Mr. Long said his client did not consider Elizabeth's disappearance a kidnapping but rather a "call from God".