Sentence examples for particular vocation from inspiring English sources

Most are in favour, for example, of female priests – although none appears to feel that particular vocation themselves.

He saw more of a possibility of its realization through the efforts of the elect because service to the Kingdom did not require a particular vocation.

At Yale, economics is regarded and taught as part of a liberal arts education, not as a preparation for any particular vocation.

Calvin once observed that "the Church reformed is the kingdom of God". He saw more of a possibility of its realization through the efforts of the elect because service to the Kingdom did not require a particular vocation.

In this light, the obedience or disobedience of Israel to its particular vocation is a determining factor of cosmic harmony or disruption and extends to the inner life of the Divinity.

The English "thank you" does not carry the reciprocal meaning of a gift both granted and received in the sense that glows out of Eucharist: the prefix eu, as in Eugenia (wellborn) or "euphemism" (nice, kind, gentle phrase), plus cháris, from which come "charisma" and "charism" (used by religious communities to mean a particular vocation or gift).

Mass tourist flows are gradually being fragmented into the "tribes" of dedicated individuals pursuing their particular vocations.

There are prayer journals for the young and the old, for particular vocations, for specific seasons in the liturgical year; there are journals crafted from the Church Fathers and Church Mothers, from mystics and martyrs, from the famous and the obscure.

I don't think it points in the direction of any particular career or vocation, but it's an orientation to life, it's an orientation to the world.

Instead, like those famous midcentury Catholics, Gordon's mother attends to the nourishment of her own particular religious vocation, a vocation less glamorous than Merton's and Day's but no less divine — a vocation as a single mother, as one afflicted by polio, as a woman in full belief of the love of God.

My instruction in the Catholic faith had always taught me that I had a vocation to carry out, a particular calling from the Holy Spirit planted at the moment of my baptism.