Sentence examples for vocation to a from inspiring English sources

It's almost like a priesthood vocation to a degree".

This book is full of such encounters, from the famous dream of the "Thought Fox" that inspired Hughes's vocation, to a late "Epiphany" from Birthday Letters, in which he denies an orphaned fox-cub, himself, and his failing marriage by not taking the creature home.

He diagnoses the malaise of modern Western society (in politics, philosophy, art and religion) very much in terms of a loss of relation and what goes with it, a loss of the sense of vocation to a sort of "artistic" transformation of the world.

The bishop tried to persuade him to become a monk, but Dunstan was doubtful whether he had a vocation to a celibate life.

The book reasserted the crucial importance of politics and the nobility of the political vocation to an age that was very largely either apolitical or anti-political in character.

Italian pickpockets have elevated their vocation to an art, and Milan is their museum.

In an era that puts a high value on sexual fulfilment, vocations to a celibate priesthood have slowed to a trickle in many parts of the world, especially the Americas and Western Europe, even when the number of worshippers remains high.

One of the most pastoral approaches comes from Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, who said on the document's release that a man who is homosexual and feels a vocation to be a priest "shouldn't be discouraged".

"Some of us only have a vocation to love a human being.

Gould makes a persuasive case that New Labour was a sincere vocation to reunite a party with voters so as better to represent them in government.

He also ascribed the move to irritation with life behind a desk when confined to Whitehall; and to the siren call of a new vocation, to be a writer.