Sentence examples for pursuing a calling from inspiring English sources
From Kirk Douglas's apocryphal Rick Martin in "Young Man With a Horn" (1950) to Diana Ross's Billie Holiday in "Lady Sings the Blues" (1972) to Forest Whitaker's Charlie Parker in "Bird" (1988), jazz musicians are artist-martyrs in the making, pursuing a calling that baffles outsiders.
Pursuing a "calling" as a career has almost become an American ideal, especially for the millennial generation.
The argument then is, that the statute directly forbids the citizen from pursuing a calling which, in itself, involves no element of immorality, and therefore by such prohibition it invades his liberty as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land.
Often it applies to a person who has a fixed habitation but pursues a calling condemned by the law as immoral, such as prostitution or gambling.
But he pursued a calling far beyond the boxing world as well.
He attended both public and Catholic grade schools in Philadelphia before entering West Catholic High School for Boys, which was run by the order of Christian Brothers, who encouraged him to pursue a calling to the priesthood.
Friends and family often suffer the consequences of your choice to pursue a "calling". Because let's be honest, in their eyes, you are an unbearable bore.
It is not a straight path forward, to pursue a calling and yet we are all on that path in some way.
Robinson resigned her commission in 1999 to pursue a calling to Christian ministry, serving as pastor-teacher to churches in the Portuguese Azores and central Texas.
A tax structure that is not skewed to favor the top ! percent is a beginning, but the quality of our lives cannot be measured in dollars and cents; it is measured in the health of our minds and bodies, the well-being of our families, the strength of our children's education, the opportunity to pursue a calling of service and to work for, and when necessary.
The money will come as a byproduct of pursuing a higher calling - to save lives and make the world a better place.
