Sentence examples for vocation to an from inspiring English sources

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.

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

Yet even at the peak, a vocation to a contemplative order was pretty rare.

In postwar America, "a vocation to a religious life was one of the few ways for Catholics without resources to get an education and to exercise leadership," said Mary Gautier, a senior research associate at CARA.

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.

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

"We went from being a vocation to a growing profession," Duncan said last week, as firefighters hosted a public breakfast leading up to Sunday's anniversary.

The architect, now 42, traces his vocation to a summer job he held at age 13, working for an uncle who was a contractor in Wisconsin.

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".

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.