Sentence examples for special vocation from inspiring English sources
Instead of succumbing to anguish, however, she came to view it as the sign of a special vocation, and it became the basis of an unprecedented creativity.
I'm not a declinist, and I do think America and Americans will always have a special vocation for liberty, but the century ahead is not American.
It infuriated him, their overlong talk and circuitous proverbs, their never getting to the point, but he was determined to excel here; it was the reason he had joined the Holy Ghost congregation, whose special vocation was the redemption of black heathens.
Flann O'Brien, born 100 years ago on 5 October, had a proper job and took his family responsibilities seriously – though as Anthony Cronin points out in his biography No Laughing Matter, in the end he was destroyed by them, "by a too ready acceptance of the necessity of emulating the life pattern of the majority who do not have a special vocation".
"But it could be argued," his biographer Anthony Cronin writes, "that in [O'Brien's] case, he was, in time, destroyed by its opposite, by a too ready acceptance of the necessity of emulating the life pattern of the majority who do not have a special vocation and are not burdened by the claims of art".
To that extent the Republic presents a paradox: if it is widely considered the first major work of political philosophy,[8] it is nevertheless a work in which there is no special content to political knowledge nor any special vocation for politics.
There simply weren't enough white-collar jobs to go around, but "if education could be regarded not as a step ladder to a few special vocations, but as the key to the treasure house of life, we should not even have to consider the fatal proposal that higher education be confined to a small and selected class," a decision that would mark the "failure of the American dream" of universal education.
According to the Truffle Committee of Perigord truffle growers know little about growing them, except that if they do grow at all they grow under pubescent (or hairy) oaks - though they won't do it even there except maybe under ten trees that have a "special truffle vocation", out of a hundred saplings that the farmer may have planted, in clay above fissured limestone.
For another, Pope Francis talks a strong view of the special calling and sanctity of the priesthood, so he is unlikely to approve mixing that vocation with other roles.More significantly, Pope Francis has himself been responsible for developing a refined version of liberation theology, as the author of a key document issued at a bishops' conference in Aparecida, Brazil in 2007.
As I reviewed the details and photos of Mywifenosevrything on her adoption page on New Vocations Web site, some very special, personal memories came flooding back.
The encounter will form the climax of the special year of events designed in part to encourage vocations to the cloth but which instead has been marred by the mushrooming paedophile scandal.
