Vocation Sentence Examples

vocation
  • The vocation of the student could find fulfilment only in the religious orders.

    273
    149
  • My vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness of love and self-sacrifice.

    225
    116
  • He studied both law and medicine, but found his real vocation in politics, and at once constituted himself a champion of the most advanced opinions.

    69
    31
  • Hence came his " conversion," and the sense of vocation for the ministry which impelled him in 1822 to enter Manchester College, then lodged at York.

    89
    60
  • His astronomical vocation, like that of Kepler, came from without.

    53
    27
  • He was uncertain at first what vocation to choose, and vacillated between business, the ministry, medicine and law.

    39
    18
  • It was not a suitable vocation, and he gladly accepted the rectorship of the Aegidien-gymnasiurn in Nuremberg, a post which he held from December 1808 to August 1816.

    50
    30
  • In Ma vocation sociale (1908) he wrote an explanation and justification of his career.

    32
    13
  • His father showed some of his drawings to an acquaintance, Andrea del Verrocchio, who at once recognized the boy's artistic vocation, and was selected by Ser Piero to be his master.

    34
    16
  • The time of respite had been wasted, all attempts at national reformation had failed; how should Yahweh spare a nation which had shown no tokens of fitness to discharge the vocation of Yahweh's people ?

    30
    16
    Advertisement
  • Petrarch remained true to the instinct of his own vocation, and had no intention of sacrificing his studies and his glory to ecclesiastical ambition.

    37
    23
  • He had no vocation, and was an example of the worldly, political and martial prelates of the 15th century.

    33
    19
  • He had become possessed with the idea of addressing wider circles and of forming an order whose vocation should be to preach and missionize throughout the whole world.

    19
    12
  • We here observe a great advance in the vocation of the prophet.

    6
    1
  • A meeting at which he was present after his return to Paris decided his vocation.

    5
    2
    Advertisement
  • But if you look for the use of the word ' vocation ' in an NHS document the picture is very different.

    3
    0
  • Claviere called his attention to the Wealth of Nations, and the study of that work revealed to him his vocation.

    3
    1
  • His work in founding the kingdom was a personal vocation, the spirit of which He communicates to believers, "thus, as exalted king," sustaining the life of His Kingdom.

    9
    8
  • But it is Christ's resurrection, the divine vindication of his total obedience to his priestly vocation, which carries liberating power.

    2
    1
  • But her political ardour was short-lived; she cared little about forms of government, and, when the days of June dashed to the ground her hopes of social regeneration, she quitted once for all the field of politics and returned to her quiet country ways and her true vocation as an interpreter of nature, a spiritualizer of the commonest sights of earth and the homeliest household affections.

    2
    1
    Advertisement
  • The records of the lives of holy people of our times must also include those who have lived their Christian vocation fully.

    4
    3
  • My vocation in life was to turn the hobby into a career.

    2
    1
  • Eachard attributed the contempt into which the clergy had fallen to their imperfect education, their insufficient incomes, and the want of a true vocation.

    2
    2
  • Its distinctive feature was the systematic training of nurses for their vocation.

    1
    1
  • His vocation for literature was assisted by his tutor, the poet Johan Magnus Stjernstolpe (1777-1831), whose works he edited.

    9
    9
    Advertisement
  • Bodily infirmity, combined with mental aptitude, were eventually considered to indicate a theological vocation; he was, in 1584, placed at the seminary of Adelberg, and thence removed, two years later, to that of Maulbronn.

    7
    8
  • For some years his influence in Russia was a living force, the circulation of his writings was a vocation zealously pursued.

    5
    5
  • But his public lessons were ill attended, and he soon fell back upon his old vocation of publisher under the patronage of a new pope, Clement VIII.

    7
    7
  • At the age of nineteen he returned to his father's house, and, making a rough attempt at a hermit's dress out of two kirtles of his sister's and a hood belonging to his father, he ran away to follow the religious vocation.

    2
    2
  • The whole family seems, indeed, to have worn a character of austerity and dignity, and when Millet's father finally decided to test the vocation of his son as an artist, it was with a gravity and authority which recalls the patriarchal households of Calvinist France.

    7
    7
  • But before old age came on him, Boudin's father abandoned seafaring, and the son gave it up too, having of course no real vocation for it, though he preserved to his last days much of a sailor's character, - frankness, accessibility, open-heartedness.

    4
    5
  • For two generations they seem to have absorbed into their ranks all the most active and energetic of those who felt a clerical vocation.

    1
    2
  • Conscience, as the subjective expression of the presupposed identity of reason and nature in their bases, guarantees the practicability of our moral vocation.

    1
    2
  • Isn't the world of the corporation the very antithesis of the poet's vocation?

    2
    2
  • He started as a comedy magician but soon realized that being a comic is his true vocation.

    1
    2
  • He is also keen to help recently retired men and women, and those contemplating retirement, to renew their sense of vocation.

    1
    2
  • Religious Ministries Website for Catholic men and women interested in pursuing a religious vocation.

    2
    2
  • We also provide some students with start-up toolkits to launch their chosen vocation.

    1
    2
  • In 2003, the theme, ' Teaching is for Life ', explored the vocation to teach.

    1
    2
  • Vocation Sunday also sees the national launch of posters, leaflets and prayer cards to promote the specific vocation Sunday also sees the national launch of posters, leaflets and prayer cards to promote the specific vocation to the Diocesan priesthood.

    0
    1
  • Fischer said, My priestly vocation, the source of my happiness, I owe to almighty God.

    2
    2
  • You will need to attend a work placement in your chosen vocation.

    0
    1
  • One may say of him, what Auden said of Cavafy, that his attitude toward poetic vocation was an aristocratic one.

    1
    1
  • In the mission field he found his true vocation.

    4
    4
  • The Reformers gave great emphasis to the fact that each person's labor is a divine vocation or calling.

    1
    1
  • The strength of the experiential interpretation of the missionary vocation is also under-estimated.

    1
    1
  • Though Comte's character and aims were as far removed as possible from Franklin's type, neither Franklin nor any man that ever lived could surpass him in the heroic tenacity with which, in the face of a thousand obstacles, he pursued his own ideal of a vocation.

    1
    1
  • Their vocation, too, is gone.

    43
    43
  • Far more difficult and risky to attempt to help would-be teachers develop a vocation for their profession.

    1
    1
  • But it is Christ 's resurrection, the divine vindication of his total obedience to his priestly vocation, which carries liberating power.

    2
    2
  • Vocation Sunday also sees the national launch of posters, leaflets and prayer cards to promote the specific vocation to the Diocesan priesthood.

    1
    2
  • The Reformers gave great emphasis to the fact that each person 's labor is a divine vocation or calling.

    2
    2
  • Just over half of IT boffins say they wish theyâd learned on the job or done vocation training rather than gone to uni.

    1
    1
  • I think that academia is no longer necessarily a vocation in the same sense that it once was.

    1
    1
  • A vision seeks to identify the corporate and specific vocation of the church.

    2
    2
  • For many couples trying to conceive, the action of timing and observing activity throughout the menstrual cycle can become a vocation.

    1
    2
  • These accessories were used during the day in their vocation such as small leather pouches, a small knife, a hatchet, a water ladle, or small cup.

    1
    2
  • The religious vocation of Israel was no longer national but ecclesiastical or municipal, and the historical continuity of the nation was vividly realized only within the walls of Jerusalem and the courts of the Temple, in the solemn assembly and stately ceremonial of a feast day.

    9
    11
  • Thereafter, when the restoration of the Roman Catholic religion was in the mind of the First Consul, Fesch resumed his clerical vocation and took an active part in the complex negotiations which led to the signing of the Concordat with the Holy See on the 15th of July 1801.

    13
    15
  • And do ye not approve this vocation ?

    1
    3
  • He held a parliament at Trim which made one law against men of English race wearing moustaches, lest they should be mistaken for Irishmen, and another obliging the sons of agricultural labourers to follow their father's vocation under pain of fine and imprisonment.

    5
    7
  • I always thought it was a vocation they felt to serve their fellow man, not a lucrative sideline.

    1
    3
  • As a proof of the seriousness with which he regarded the literary vocation, it may be mentioned that he used to write out his poems in printed characters, believing that that process best enabled him to understand his own peculiarities and faults, and probably unconscious that Coleridge had recommended some such method of criticism when he said he thought "print settles it."

    25
    28
  • Squarcione, whose original vocation was tailoring, appears to have had a remarkable enthusiasm for ancient art, and a proportionate faculty for acting, with profit to himself and others, as a sort of artistic middleman; his own performances as a painter were merely mediocre.

    6
    9
  • The military vocation of Rome was now felt to have reached its normal limits; and the emperors, understanding that, in the future, industrial activity must prevail, prepared the abolition of slavery as far as was then possible, by honouring the freedmen, by protecting the slave against his master, and by facilitating manumissions.

    4
    7
  • In the year 1 747, to the great regret of his colleagues, he resigned his post of assessor of the board of mines that he might devote himself to his higher vocation, requesting only to be allowed to receive as a pension the half of his salary.

    12
    15
  • Through long years of poverty and obscurity Carlyle showed unsurpassed fidelity to his vocation and superiority to the lower temptations which have ruined so many literary careers.

    8
    11
  • Secretly, Renan felt himself cut off from the communion of saints, and yet with his whole heart he desired to live the life of a Catholic priest Hence a struggle between vocation and conviction; owing to Henriette, conviction gained the day.

    5
    8
  • A carload of drovers, too, in the midst, on a level with their droves now, their vocation gone, but still clinging to their useless sticks as their badge of office.

    26
    29
  • He early discovered his vocation as a preacher of indulgences; he combined the elocutionary gifts of a revivalist orator with the shrewdness of an auctioneer.

    9
    13
  • But he felt that his real vocation was philosophy, and after holding for a short time an extraordinary professorship of theology, he became professor of philosophy in 1855.

    6
    10
  • Carlyle felt by this time conscious of having a message to deliver to mankind, and his comrades, he thought, were making literature a trade instead of a vocation, and prostituting their talents to frivolous journalism.

    3
    7
  • Clara readily did this, and Francis, satisfied as to her vocation, told her to come to the Portiuncula arrayed as a bride.

    4
    8
  • The general opinion of scholars is that the latter part, which represents the poet as having received his vocation in a dream, is by a later hand, and that the sentences in the earlier part which refer to the dream are interpolations by this second author.

    9
    14
  • But Rabbi Jonah saw the true vocation of his life in the scientific investigation of te Hebrew language and in a rational biblical exegesis based upon sound linguistic knowledge.

    6
    11
  • Tobacco-growing was the one vocation of Virginia, and many of the planters were able to spend their winters in London or Glasgow and to send their sons and daughters to the finishing schools of the mother country.

    3
    8
  • This last owed its inception to a priestess who, having abandoned her holy vocation at the call of love, espoused dancing as a means of livelihood and trained a number of girls for the purpose.

    3
    9
  • After the beginning of the 3rd century there were still no doubt men under the control of the hierarchy who experienced the prophetic ecstasy, or clerics like Cyprian who professed to have received special directions from God; but prophets by vocation no longer existed and these sporadic utterances were in no sense placed on a level with the contents of the sacred Scriptures.

    5
    11
  • His SOn, Achille Harlay De Sancy, bishop of Saint Malo (1581-1646), was educated for the church but resigned his vocation for the career of arms on the death of his elder brother in 1601.

    9
    15
  • These general addresses, published under the title Bestimmung des Gelehrten (Vocation of the Scholar), were on a subject dear to Fichte's heart, the supreme importance of the highest intellectual culture and the duties incumbent on those who had received it.

    9
    17
  • In the first part of his vocation the novelists of his own youth, such as Marivaux, Richardson and Prevost, may be said to have shown him the way, though he improved greatly upon them; in the second he was almost a creator.

    9
    17
  • I n respect of civic rights no privileges of sex, birth or vocation are recognized.

    10
    18
  • The attainment of the higher stage of development is the moral and religious vocation of man; this higher stage is self-determination, the performance of every human function as a voluntary and intelligent agent, or as a person, having as its cosmical effect the subjection of all material to spiritual existences.

    3
    11
  • He early showed a vocation for poetry, but the outbreak of the Revolution temporarily diverted his energy.

    12
    20
  • He is only to meddle in his own vocation; and to remember that his office is only to be the physician's cook."

    5
    15
  • But besides the vocation he had freely selected and assiduously laboured to fulfil, two more external influences helped to shape Martineau's mind and define his problem and his work; the awakening of English thought to the problems which underlie both philosophy and religion, and the new and higher opportunities offered for their discussion in the periodical press.

    6
    18
  • He was determined not to abandon his vocation as a man of genius by following the lower though more profitable paths to literary success, and expected that his wife should partake the necessary sacrifice of comfort.

    9
    22
  • The most remarkable of the works from this period are - (I) the Bestimmung des Menschen (Vocation of Man, 1800), a book which, for beauty of style, richness of content, and elevation of thought, may be ranked with the Meditations of Descartes; (2) Der geschlossene Handelsstaat, 1800 (The Exclusive or Isolated Commercial State), a very remarkable treatise, intensely socialist in tone, and inculcating organized protection; (3) Sonnenklarer Bericht an das grossere Publicum iiber die neueste Philosophie, 1801.

    9
    23