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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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