Sentence examples for one vocation from inspiring English sources

The Jew always operated from a basis of fraud, and slipped easily from one vocation into another.

Dr. Richard Mouw, in his own reflections on Retirement Home Christianity, references Peter Berger who observes in The Noise of Solemn Assemblie, "it is certainly appropriate to show concern for the vocation of Christians in industrial society, as long as we are aware of the fact that there are some Christians whose one vocation remains to suffer and to face death in faith".

He was the son of a mining carpenter from the Westerwald, but his career took him into other spheres — more artistic ones, though not necessarily more rarefied, for we are taught by his art not to rate one vocation higher than the next.

It holds the promise to unleash the latent potential of the individual to excel at more than one vocation, and to explore new avenues for creative expression.

The only point I am trying to make is that the main reason anyone should become a yoga teacher is because it is one's vocation - one's calling - to help ease the suffering of others.

Smaller, specialist colleges that focus on one discipline or vocation – such as agriculture, nursing or performing arts – can offer a more intimate and nurturing experience, and they aren't dwarfed by other faculties within a larger institution.

"I understood that performing could be one's vocation, and I thought, yeah!" she said in another interview.

I too have read interviews and articles where writers claim that to be a novelist was their one true vocation.

No doubt the biggest tribute Nigeria could ever give her would be to create a culture in which devotion and dedication to one's vocation is habitual.

Part of it was innate: that ingrained uneasiness with being identified too completely with one's vocation that human beings, and especially novelists, are encouraged to deny, and which a writer such as Geoff Dyer exemplifies in his oeuvre, but also makes his principal subject.

Christie is luminous as the ruinously beautiful woman who provokes intense rivalry, violence and courage among her many suitors, and Sharif would never be as commanding again as the selfless, thwarted hero who gives up one romantic vocation (poetry) for another (saving lives as a doctor).