Sentences with phrase «true vocation as»

John Burdett is a nonpracticing lawyer who worked in Hong Kong for a British firm until he found his true vocation as a writer.

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While it is certainly true that we, as members of the Church, often fail to live up to our primary vocation to be the presence of Christ in the world, we also recognise that the Church is of divine institution.

It is of course true that the expressly Christian and ecclesiastical elements are of irreplaceable importance as objective expressions of a grace which is incarnational in structure, and as a source of strength to endure the secular world as a Christian vocation.

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

He blessed that wee new girl, and her family, and it was that moment when the quiet unassuming one is revealed as their true identity in the movie, he's still a pastor, still a teacher, even after all of the deconstruction and pulling apart and rebuilding of our faith, and our understanding of church and go - go - go - programs on the premise of compounds and build - it - they - will - come, coupled with a new understanding of vocation and ministry, even with his business acumen, and the new normal life in the secular marketplace.

The poor youth's sins were, as you will see, of the most harmless order, yet they interfered with what proved to be his truest vocation, so they gave him great distress.

Complaints such as Prof. Johnson's would be taken more seriously if they engaged carefully nuanced reflections on the problem, such as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's 1990 document, «The Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian,» or Avery Cardinal Dulles» 2003 essay, published in these pages, «True and False Reform.»

The Church can not sanction any act of sex outside of true, ie male / female, marriage, because it directly goes against the Church's primary vocation as the Bride of Christ, i.e. that Body of believers who spend their lives seeking «him whom my soul loves» (Sg 3:3) and making him the first priority of their lives.

In 1970, in what he later described as a fit of «vocational absentmindedness,» he ran for Congress, but his true vocation was the pulpit and the press, not the hustings.

Work can be no true vocation while it is turned directly or indirectly to the forging of instruments of destruction, — or can play be more than momentary escape from the abiding fear of violence so long as the nations are related to each other in hostility or uneasy alliance.

He waxed eloquent about the nuns who did not have true vocation to celibacy — and the monks: «Unless she is in a high and unusual state of grace a young woman can do without a man as little as she can do without eating, drinking, sleeping or other natural requirements.

That is, he understood the vocation of every true thinker to be much the same as the vocation of the true poet, or of any true artist: to bear witness to that haunting and penumbral interval that marks the difference between being and beings, and to attempt to keep it open in our thoughts and our words and our works.

While it is true that Rahner's presentation of man as a «supernatural existential» does aim to maintain some kind of nature of man such that it can not be absolutely identical with his supernatural vocation, the texts quoted above appear to indicate that the supernatural life that is given to the believer is something already possessed by the non-believer in equal measure.

Marti views her work as an Administrative Director as a true vocation and believes in the profound importance of administrative work in creating and maintaining health in our schools.

Sadly, most people just play at being a writer, not treating it as a true vocation and something they just do on the side.

These folks are all writers, casuals, non-professionals who do it as a lark, rather than a true vocation.

Therefore the dimension of project designing and experimentation merge together as the true vocation of this space, in a continuum between past and present.

Working in all these arenas, I am now anticipating settling down as a delivery truck driver as I feel this is where my true vocation stands.