Sentences with phrase «own higher calling»

Political marketing is so hollow and disingenuous, it makes hawking cereal seem like a higher calling

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«We believe that together, as citizens, we have a higher calling to close the military / civilian cultural divide by joining in service to our communities.»

Dubbed the campaign's «Field General» by Rolling Stone magazine, Jeremy was listed among «The Obama Campaign's Real Heroes» and has been cited as «a former Harvard divinity student who took to political organizing as though it were his higher calling.»

More than a century ago, Frederick Winslow Taylor brought his stopwatch and principles of scientific management to the office, instilling efficiency as the highest calling in what was then a factory for processing paperwork.

Those who don't believe in a higher calling or higher presence are still instruments of hope and opportunity for good.

Paul in 1 Cor 7 speaks of the higher calling of celibacy in the same passage you refer to.

God has given us a higher calling: living in His glory and testifying about the reason for our hope.

Although I believe guilt plays a role in our lives by making us conscious of our higher calling, I also believe that if we get caught up in feeling bad about minor things, we are wasting our time.

But in the very next chapter, he praises celibacy as a higher calling — a better way of serving Christ — than marriage.

Vatican II, in his view, inaugurated a two - way dialogue in which Catholicism not only listened to the world's hopes and anxieties but also proposed to the world a Christian humanism: the «passionate love of God for all humanity, made visible in... Jesus Christ, crucified and risen,» that same Christ who fully and uniquely reveals to humanity its incomparable dignity and high calling.

What segregates us is the belief that the «christian» is trying to live a «higher calling» than the wayward «christian» or the non-christian.

Just because you believe in God doesn't mean that being a preacher is «the highest calling to which any human being could aspire.»

We gathered together to hold each other accountable to the gospel's high calling and to openly share our failures with each other so that we could encourage each other to do better.

Wonder and awe before the majesty of the Creator, answering a high call to service, being transformed by a Power greater than our own, being aware of a Presence in whose fellowship we find our strength, being reinforced by the divine help so that we triumph over trouble, opening our lives to inspired hours when the best seems the most real — all these are responses to revelations of reality above and beyond ourselves, but nowhere is such revelation so compelling as when it comes incarnate in a person.

An inevitable temptation of Christian theology, and particularly so in our own time, has been to think that the idea or symbol of an actual end of the world was no part of the original proclamation of Jesus, and rather derived either from the apocalyptic religious world that so dominated Jesus» disciples or from the all - too - human or fleshy component of their minds and hearts, which was impervious to the higher call of the Spirit.

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Hence, when they see a man of means who could spend his time easily and comfortably, when they see him straining himself as much as a scrupulous workman, exposing himself to many sufferings, choosing the burdensome way of a higher calling: they look upon him as either a fanatic or a lunatic.

The religious life is a higher calling, not an esoteric, separate one.

A woman's highest calling is to follow Jesus Christ.

Furthermore, as an egalitarian, I am troubled by the common teaching from the Church that «motherhood is a woman's highest calling.»

To me, it is a very high calling.

It is the highest calling, highest in the sense of enduring, because it always goes beyond us in the sense of going ahead of us.

Christ the new Adam... fully reveals man to himself and brings to light his most high calling.»

Is there a higher calling?

Today the higher calling of all higher callings seems to he teaching.

It is a call to each reader to new perspectives on the curriculum, to the end that the high calling of education in democracy may be better served.

Even in these modern days I have had long and agonizing interviews and counseling sessions with overseas missionaries who were trying to decide whether, if they exercised ministry back home, they would be recreant to their «higher calling.»

Founded in an experience of transcendent order, the new settlements habitually slipped away from their high calling and fell into idolatry, as the children of Israel had done before them.

Belief in love and service to others is of the highest calling.

The specifics of walking out that high calling vary for every couple but if we hope to succeed, each of our marriages should embrace these uniquely Christian disciplines: confession, forgiveness and sacrificial love.

«It becomes existential and related to belief in a higher calling.»

Relief Society President is a very high calling that only women can hold.

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, told reporters last week that when the cardinals vote, they will be answering to a higher call than considerations of citizenship or nationality.

We have been judged, and at our best we judge ourselves, to be unworthy of our «high calling in Christ Jesus our Lord.»

Despite the fact that being single was praised by both Jesus and Paul, I learned early on that marriage and motherhood were my highest callings, and that Proverbs 31 required I keep a home as tidy as June Cleaver's.

these priest have a «higher calling» by God?

It may be that Prince Charles is a child of his times, unduly influenced by the zeitgeist of the postmodern age, for which there is no higher calling than to multiculturalism.

Our highest calling, as Christians, is to love God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strengths, and to love our neighbors as ourselves.

But it is a settlement which means the domestication of the soul and the eventual destruction of the spirit's high calling.

Singleness can be Accepted as a Burden - or as a Higher Calling Single people must not stifle what is best in themselves, nor give themselves over to dreams that can not be satisfied.

Homemaking is a high calling indeed, and one the Church should work counter-culturally to celebrate.

Richards puts it well when he writes: «The minister who readily assumes that the doctor, the psychiatrist, or the social worker have no need for him, or that they resent his presence, is too easily dissuaded from his «high calling,» or else he is allowing himself to rationalize an unpleasant responsibility.»

A common refrain among Christians is that «motherhood is a woman's highest calling.»

It was the Christian's duty and high calling to serve God in his appointed place, not to change his station in life.

But the teaching that motherhood is a woman's highest calling can be painful and isolating for women who remain unmarried or childless.

A Christian woman's highest calling is not motherhood; a Christian woman's highest calling is to follow Christ.

The Will of God is a Narrow Way and requires that we «deny, forsake and sacrifice» our «will» and trade it in for THE HIGHER CALLING OF CHRIST JESUS.

There is a long tradition of Christians - from priests to nuns to laypeople - who have chosen celibacy as a higher calling toward spiritual fulfillment.

To the Most High they call, but he does not raise them up at all.