Sentence examples for holy calling from inspiring English sources

In this "deflationary view," higher education is not a "holy calling" or even a "vocation".

It was Maimonides who may have first raised the medical profession to the status of a holy calling for Jews.

I want to identify with and be identified by the holy calling "to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".

Whether you are impelled by convictions that have nothing to do with faith or a sense of responsibility that has everything to do with holy calling, you are sharing in the countercultural kingship of the man of sorrows.

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord...but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began".

Waves of cross-bearing warriors from northern France and Germany obeyed the holy call, laying siege to Cathar strongholds, slaughtering the heretics and pillaging their lands with a savagery that was startling even by the standards of the Middle Ages.

It's a holy call to action.

Bernice voted against selling the medal and holy book, calling them "sacred" to her family.

Exaltation of the Holy Cross, also called Holy Cross Day, liturgical feast celebrated on September 14 to honour the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified.

One is the Jewish holy day called Tisha B'Av that laments the destruction (twice) of the ancient Holy Temples in Jerusalem.

Such places were holy groves, called alka in Lithuanian.