Sentence examples for vocation around from inspiring English sources

Her selections vary in quality, but even some of the weaker elements testify that artists are beginning to reconceive their vocation around the humble disciplines of pencil, pen, or brush on paper.

Arbor gets in a fight defending Swifty in the playground, and the resulting chaos gets both boys excluded, a development they welcome so that they can pursue their true vocation: roaming around town scavenging and nicking metal objects so they can sell them for scrap.

Chip and Josh know that they have what many men would consider the perfect vocation: they get to run around in the sun asking impertinent questions of near-naked girls, who are usually happily forthcoming.

To help his readers do so, he's boldly provided at the end of his book a fifteen-point "Humility Code," which includes the assertions "We don't live for happiness, we live for holiness" and "pride is the central vice," as well as the injunction "No good life is possible unless it is organized around a vocation".

Are Christians today willing financially to support entire monastic communities of gays, lesbians and heterosexual allies living in celibacy together as a spiritual vocation - as Christians around the world did for centuries to help people called to this nearly impossible vocation succeed at it?

But it is our duty to make our vocation more accessible to those around us.

However, some in rural areas chose vocations centered chiefly around hunting, fishing, forestry, and state-offered occupations such as mining or working in the salt marshes.

John Still's former vocation as a salesman has proven handy around Kenilworth Road.

And, as a recovered social worker (I'd run screaming from the vocation to avoid the fatigue and upset snooping around in other people's problems created) I was astounded.

Idealists defined a political theory which places a great emphasis upon the moral vocation of citizenship and the value of community organized around a common good.

A cross around their neck is the only outward sign of their vocation.