Word: vocationalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In a report to the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen on his mission in the Cumberlands, Pastor Smathers once wrote: "My vocation is practical action rather than philosophical reasoning." But that same report showed that "practical action" is only the outward and visible sign of his ministry. Said he:
" 'Man cannot live by bread alone,' but before the average can have that which is 'beyond bread' he must have bread, and helping him to secure this is a religious vocation. But this vocation must not stop with helping meet material need, but proceed to the...
"Mr. Chapman tells the story of Watts' five spiritual wives and an absurd legal union with an incipient genius, the girl model Ellen Terry, when he was a middleaged, lukewarm gentleman and she an actress with a vocation as irresistible as his own. On the only occasion on which...
When the sergeant became a regular visitor to Orchilly, he found that Bernard was a tormented man. He could not forgive himself for having left China when the Japanese marched in. He was harrowed by the thought that his wife's mysterious illness was simply a means of preventing...
In Los Angeles, Harry Truman, discussing his own vocation, said: "A politician is the ablest man in a government, and when he's dead they call him a statesman." At 60, Harry Truman is very much alive.