Sentence examples for follow a vocation from inspiring English sources
On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities.
"Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed".
Abbott is one of those increasingly rare politicians to have followed a vocation rather than simply to have sought a way of living off the taxpayer.
[ 22] "A majority [of nurses surveyed] (64.5%) believe nursing to be a vocation".
It's the 21st century, and it seems very discriminatory not to allow women to follow their vocation.
After a brief spell working in his father's clothing factory, he was encouraged by friends to follow his vocation and take up research work in poetry in post-Stalinist Russia.
This is how you teach your children to become leaders, to follow their own vocation.
The former lead singer of the Slits, Viv Albertine, and the Turner-nominated artist Liam Gillick play a childless couple, identified as D and H, both contemporary artists and evidently of considerable private means, able to follow their vocations without worrying about money.
The multi-agency programme is now being used by 66 young people a year, some of whom have gone on to become role models, to find a vocation or follow university courses.
Telling the story of Fr Rodrigues, a Portuguese Jesuit who follows his missionary vocation to Japan at a time of violent religious persecution, Silence is a compelling historical fiction, a potent distillation of the paradoxes and ambiguities of faith and, from a Christian author, a daring challenge to religious orthodoxy.
