But God, whose gifts and callings are without repentance, would let nothing pluck me out of His hands, though I was continually doing despite to the Spirit of Grace.
The gifts and callings of God are without repentance.
I have not so learned Christ--no; His gifts and callings are without repentance.
They flayed animals, carried corpses, and showed such aptness for these and similar detestedcallings that in several European countries they long monopolized them.
These gypsies came from India, where caste is established and callings are hereditary even among out-castes.
Of the various callings to which the division of labor has caused man specially to devote himself, there is none to be compared for nobility or usefulness with that of the true teacher.
At all hours of the day and night processions of boats pass to and from the palace, and everywhere bustling traders and agents ply their dingy little craft, and proclaim their several callings in a Babel of cries.
Educated slaves exercised their talents and pursued their callings for the emolument of their masters; and thus it is to-day in Siam.
Other callings make a man look peaceful, but not all othercallings make him look wise.
It is the skill of the saint to catch "the still small voice" amid all the selfish clamours of the day, and amid the far more subtle callings of the heart.
If we reverently open one of His callings we shall find it a store-house of needed strength.
Nor could that sort of question have, throughout the sternest trials or the humblest callings to which his after-life had been subjected, forced admission into his brain.
Nelly Gray and Janet Baird still pursue their respective callings in Grassyvale--the latter never failing, on every possible occasion, to boast of her sagacity in detecting the real character of Mr Henry Wilkinson, alias Bolton.
Their callings were antipodes to each other--one being devoted to the decoration and comfortable appearance of the human exterior, whilst the other took special cognisance of the internal condition of the animal economy.
Callings are personal, just as matters of business themselves vary with times and persons; but the example of obedience is general.
We think thus also concerning every good work in the humblest callings and in private affairs.
He regards them both as the enemies of reasoning and abstraction, though in the case of Euripides more with reference to his immoral sentiments about tyrants and the like.
There are many points in which he shows a modern feeling and a prophetic insight like Plato.
Plato wishes to give his citizens a taste of Athenian freedom as well as of Lacedaemonian discipline.
And now, Glaucon, there will be no harm in further enumerating how many and how great are the rewards which justice and the other virtues procure to the soul from gods and men, both in life and after death.
And not-being is not one thing but, properly speaking, nothing?
Truly a tyrannical son is a blessing to his father and mother!
What he taught concerning the dignity of worldly callings was in many instances quite right and true.
For further particulars of the respect for worldly callingsbefore Luther’s day, see N.
The preceding remarks on Luther’s misrepresentations of the Church’s teaching concerning worldly callings lead us to consider his utterances on the Church’s depreciation of the female sex and of matrimony.
Another witness to the Church’s esteem for worldly callingsand employments is Marcus von Weida, a Saxon Dominican.
Such callingsas lay within his means and opportunities he was incapacitated for by education and temper.
They are carefully studied individually, and, while all are educated in school in the same way, special preparation is given for different callings in life according to the inclination and aptitude shown by the girls.
Freedom of engaging in lawful callings came to be restricted, and an elaborate process of education and examination to be imposed upon those who would engage in them, lest there be injury to the public health, safety or morals.
Also in the Year Books an undertaking implied in certain relations or callings to use the skill or diligence which the relation or calling demanded is often made the basis of liability.
In other words, in these cases one was held without regard to fault for injuries incidental to the conduct of certain enterprises or callingsand for failure to restrain potentially injurious agencies which one maintained.
Various callings were also laid under contribution in the quest for similes.
Maxims that apply equally to all callings are to be found in abundance.
Of all the itinerantcallings the Watchman, the Water Carrier, the Vender of Milk, the Town Crier, and the Pedlar, are most probably of the highest antiquity.
The figure of a Water-carrier, introduced in the Fourth Plate, is copied from one of a curious and rare set of cries and callings of London, published by Overton, at the White Horse without Newgate.
But during the war the cooperation of women in public life has unostentatiously grown from year to year until to-day the number of women engaged in various callings in Germany exceeds the number of men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "callings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
