Sentence examples for vocation calling from inspiring English sources

According to Cruess, a profession is a vocation (calling) that requires specialist knowledge and skills acquired through training and education, and the professional is expected to use these characteristics to serve others.

He was the author of Christian Vocation: Call of the King (Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1964).

Writer spoke with Marshall Levin, the pres. of APPA, who said he is a campaign-button freak by avocation & the editor of a nat'l medical journal by vocation called "Surgical Medicine".

They make fantastic contributors to society in whatever way their vocation calls them.

This is a vocation – it called to you and you answered and now it calls in you.

That belief would indicate a rather low estimate of the strength of "vocation" which calls a Gilbert White or an Augustus Jessopp to the cure of a village.

After struggling with an Episcopalian discernment committee helping her make a decision about her vocation, she calls it quits.

She has adapted the games they play together to be easier for him to follow -- even if "follow" just means he is literally just following her around the house as they play Hide and Seek or pretend to be spies -- or "Secret Cajuns," as Parker thinks that particular vocation is called.

Writing was both his vocation – he was called to it, and wrote intuitively – and his career, by which he supported himself and his family; and he was proud of both of these aspects.

He believed in "the master race, in the mission, in Germany's vocation, in those called upon to govern, to dictate".

I thought I also detected a trace of that Mormon upbringing, which I share, in his sense of vocation, of being called to things.