Sentence examples for vocation means from inspiring English sources

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing — I suppose that's what vocation means — at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction, so I'm thankful, and call it good, as Eliot would say.

Here, and elsewhere in the book, Laird figures the temptations to emotional commitment as a possible threat to his poethood, but what exactly his vocation means to him emerges more through negatives than positives.

The Presidency — as an idea, a vocation, a validation — means more to him than it does even to the other politicians who believe it should be theirs.

The French word for vocation — métier — also means "loom," and Mallarmé referred to himself as a "sacred spider" spinning threads from his mind and weaving them into "marvelous laces".

Fuentes's work passed on an idea of ambition – what it is, what it is for; it also pointed out that fidelity to a vocation does not mean hiding away from the world, but rather engaging with it and seeking its reinvention by the power of the written word.

Now let me be clear, alignment with your vocation doesn't mean you wont have hard times and struggle.

Does having a vocation that helps others mean you should not concern yourself with material things like pay?

I mean his "vocation" in the strictest sense of the term, as his "calling" to follow Jesus Christ.

In painting after painting he seems to be asking himself what this means for his vocation as a painter.

She's a single mother, she's also a professional, by means of her vocation, she's a criminal lawyers, and she's put through exceedingly challenging situations.

Other studies equally suggest that health workers' inability to pursue their vocation due to lack of means and supplies is a demotivator (Mathauer and Imhoff 2006).