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".
Bobby has no specific talent or artistic vocation; he merely wants to live, and feels that, under his parents' roof, in his father's workshop, and in his narrow neighborhood purview, he's hardly living.
He enjoys his vocation because it allows him to live rather anonymously in his office (bedroom), but for the odd visit from his wife and two daughters who occasionally bring him a little bite of cheese wrapped in a bill that reads "DISCONNECT" or "COLLECTION AGENCY".
Indians from languorous villages to pulsating cities were making difficult new choices to die other than where they were born, to pursue vocations not their father's, to live lives imagined within their own skulls.
"We have to learn to be authentically ourselves, to live out our vocation and to be confident in preaching our faith".
"I am committed to engaging in dialogue with appropriate colleagues at Wheaton toward the goal of reaching reconciliation so that I may continue to live out my vocation as a Christian scholar and teacher with my faculty colleagues and my remarkable students".
"All my eminent colleagues were profs because they had to live, but that wasn't their vocation – they wanted to be politically engaged public intellectuals and often artists, like Sartre.
You've got to absolutely need it, it's got to be a compulsion and a vocation, you really, really have to have the fire in the belly because it's not an easy way to live.
Kathryn: We were married in March 2008 and knew we didn't want to wait very long, both because of our ages and because we believe that openness to life is essential to living out our vocation of marriage to its fullest.
He is impressed with Cynicism, but sees it as a vocation to itinerant teaching and bare-bones living rather than as a body of doctrine (3.22).
