religious calling
religious call

I assume a lot of men have a religious calling or something.

Mary still felt a religious calling but she couldn't find an order that suited her.

That, my young priest, is what constitutes a religious calling!

He renounced his religious calling, however, and was married by the year 1642.

In the 1980s, she felt a religious calling and worked to become an Episcopal nun.

This, many of them maintain, is simply part of their religious calling.

She married and was widowed at which point her religious calling flourished.

One cannot be 'thrown out' of a religious calling.

Among this number were seven whom the foundress felt showed signs of having a religious calling.

Sister Susan says her work is consistent with her religious calling.

White saw no problems in reconciling Sundays on the football field with his religious calling.

He already felt a religious calling by the age of 13 to 14, wanting to become a Christian Brother himself.

But she says the Church need have no worry about the way she meets her religious calling.

This fate, having nothing at all to do with the girls' religious calling, was not unusual in large, aristocratic families of the day.

The reason is because the priesthood lays claim to trust and to a religious calling.

Many came to regard ballet not simply as a job but almost as a religious calling.

Throughout the war, he continues in his religious calling, always preaching to his men.

He originally had planned to follow his father's career of dentistry, but then felt a religious calling.

Not one of them ever declared himself to be a man of religious calling or a politician.

It has been pointed out that he viewed his work not simply as a political role but as a religious calling.

Influenced by these guardians, little Gloria briefly thought she might have a religious calling.

But as a child, he also felt a religious calling and wanted to become a Roman Catholic priest.

This became a major statement in the conflict women undergo between their social role and their religious calling.

She, then, asked her father to allow her to follow her religious calling.

As he grew older, he felt that he might have a religious calling.

The religious call may come as a dream in which the man is "possessed by a female spirit."

According to multiple sources, religious calls have also been made to capture and enslave Jewish women.

From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil.

He felt his religious call then and was trained and ordained as the college chaplain.

Like a strong fortress it was secure against the spread of any religious call, whether Christian or Zoroastrian.

The religious call such things miracles.

He had his First Communion on 14 November 1886 and felt a religious call to the priesthood at this time.

"This is a devotional matter, a religious call ... so how are they entering politics?

As a child, she made frequent visits to the church and felt a religious call which solidified as she grew older.

The religious call to love your enemy included loving that enemy as you would love yourself, and I didn't love myself.

A long-term foreign presence, it is widely agreed, would immeasurably strengthen the appeal of Mr. Hussein's religious call to arms.

Unlike Catholic priests, who spend years in a seminary before ministering to parishioners, evangelical believers can start new flocks soon after they hear a religious call.

"These groups can mobilize people on a religious call, but when it comes to getting votes, religious considerations aren't the only ones on people's minds," he says.

A7 Religious Call for Debt Relief The World Council of Churches urged that the foreign debts of impoverished nations be canceled.

Ahmad al-Hassan first started his religious call privately and then later publicly announced it, after his attempted Hawza reformations, in 2002 during the last months of Saddam's rule.

During the holy month of Ramadan, Islamic youths have ordered restaurants in this summer capital and tourist resort to close from dawn to dusk to observe the religious call for fasting.

Its specific purpose was on one side to threaten and warn the Jews, and, on the other, to seek an understanding with the Quraysh to let the religious call take its course freely, without impediment or recourse to war or fighting.

The enclaves run from small clusters of homes, such as Migron, where some residents feel they are fulfilling a religious call to reclaim the land of Israel, to city-size developments with tens of thousands of residents drawn by cheaper prices and room for growing families.

"While I believe religious organizations should have full freedom to make religious calls regarding jobs subsidized by tithes and offerings," Ms. Rogers said, speaking to the Baptist Joint Committee in 2011, "when government-funded jobs are involved, I believe the calculus changes."

But the focus of late is becoming narrower, limited to the fighting within Iraq: some call it sectarian violence or its synonym Sunni-Shiite fighting; others who see it as more political than religious call it an insurgency or an internecine (in-ter-NEE-sin) struggle.

The question ultimately is whether the proponent of the religious call is advocating the need or preference for others to believe in the same religious views, imposing the religious doctrine on another or assuming some moral superiority, or whether he is only crediting his faith with his motivation and intentions to help build a better society.