higher calling

higher calling

Some vocation that one feels is of the highest moral importance, especially that of religious service. He gave up a lucrative career in computer programming and moved to a monastery in Portugal in order to follow a higher calling. She is a poet, so she feels that her art is a higher calling. She feels that she has a higher calling to provide medical services to people in underserved areas.

See also: calling, higher

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