Sentence examples for vocation because from inspiring English sources

"It's such a privileged vocation because of the trust that people put in us," Sister Hall said.

I can't perform my vocation because it would provoke dissent in the diocese as I'm such an active campaigner, and it's very sad.

In cases like this, church officials ask if it is fair to strip a member of the clergy who is otherwise in good standing of his vocation because of an allegation of abuse.

On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities.

A former Jesuit seminarian who reluctantly gave up his religious vocation because of health reasons, he lives with his parents in a modest house here, drives a battered old Volkswagen Beetle, donates part of his $4,500-a-month 4,500-a-monthrity and has only one known extravagance: a personal library of some 7,000 books.

An avocation is a vacation from a vocation, because the pay ranges from little to nothing.

"Women used to join vocations because they didn't want to be a wife or a mom, they wanted to travel the world, be missionaries, and get an education," Piazza said.

This explained the abundance of the clergy in a small city like Quito; often men were ordained not because of a vocation but because it solved their economic problems and improved their community standing.

The reasons (more than one was possible) that students reported for choosing medicine as a profession were "to contribute to the welfare of the public" (73%), "self-realization and vocation" (15%), "because of the shortage of doctors in the country" (9%) and "social recognition/status" (3%).

"In her business, people get very good about sticking to their story," said Mr. Wilson, who has told friends that when they were dating Ms. Plame told him about her true vocation only because he, too, had a high-level secrecy clearance, as a political adviser to the American general who was commanding United States forces in Europe.

Not because he is relentlessly polite, courtly and respectful -- a fighter by vocation -- but because great champions are often defined by their opponents.