Sentence examples for vocation to be from inspiring English sources

Gabe, Marie's brother, who has lost his vocation to be a priest, is something of an enigma in this story.

Women, he claimed, have a natural vocation to be wives and mothers; they are to leave public affairs to men.

"French culture has a vocation to be universal and by becoming universal, it erases differences," Ms. Cohen-Solal, 53, said.

Gaston himself always protested that he had never had any ambition or even vocation to be a publisher.

Living our vocation to be protectors of God's handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience".

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.

"[But Sisulu] helped me to understand that my real vocation was to be a servant of the people".

If women felt their vocation was to be a priest, then they deserved the chance to explore that calling.

For some people, recreational travel is virtually a vocation, something to be planned and researched with dedication and thoroughness.

Whatever his role as a reader of Continental newspapers and a translator (he was reputed to know 14 languages), his real vocation seemed to be spewing invective.

According to Rato Khen Rinpoche, the abbot of Rato Drepung, another Mundgod monastery, "Monastic vocation used to be cocooned by a geographic isolation".