Use "ascetic" in a sentence

1. Casuistry, and an ascetic morality, made up, in most cases, the greater part of the moral philosophy of the schools

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2. The alterations which the universities of Europe thus introduced into the ancient course of philosophy were all meant for the education of ecclesiastics, and to render it a more proper introduction to the study of theology But the additional quantity of subtlety and sophistry, the casuistry and ascetic morality which those alterations introduced into it, certainly did not render it more for the education of gentlemen or men of the world, or more likely either to improve the understanding or to mend the heart

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3. means that a person is exploring the true meaning of life, the universe asceticism means ascetic people just walk in awakening a traveler on the road, they are not sleep, because they are still in the exploration and research, so they haven't awakening and consciousness

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4. Life in Tasmania wraps visitors in a mystic aura, an ascetic and contemplative magnetism

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5. That music contains, besides, elements of sacred rhythm and ascetic tonality

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6. “It is wrong to call me an ascetic

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7. down his body in ascetic endeavors because of the warmth of his love for God, and he transformed souls by the

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8. Ascetic effort without obedience results in vanity

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9. Chastity is connected and cultivated in an ascetic atmosphere and state of mind, which presupposes effort, and is followed by the consolation of the

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10. The Holy Spirit has given to the elder, after many years of ascetic

11. For, as a contemporary ascetic tel s us, the saints would stil love Christ selflessly, even if there were no paradise, even if we were to suppose that al the places of paradise had been already claimed

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12. There are many narrative stories in the synaxaria about saints who were hosts to wild beasts in the cel s or caves of their ascetic endeavors (St

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13. The most ascetic St

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14. There was once an ascetic who was praying in the desert and a temptation came to disturb him

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15. Humbling himself as usual, the ascetic was tempted with the presence of a false light

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16. temptation disappeared and an inexpressible peace fil ed the heart of the ascetic

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17. Let us stand courageously, like the ascetic mentioned by

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18. Neilos the Ascetic, who had been bitten by a snake while praying

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19. Mark the Ascetic informs us that with these tears Christ has visited us and has opened our eyes

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20. Athos who used the prayer of the heart, as told to us by a fel ow ascetic who was

21. The Engedi colony included not only Nazarites of lifelong and time-period consecration but numerous other ascetic herdsmen who congregated in this region with their herds and fraternized with the Nazarite brotherhood

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22. He was not an ascetic, and he came forever to destroy all such notions regarding the approach to God

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23. Many of the Nazarite brotherhood became believers in Jesus, but the majority of these ascetic and eccentric men refused to accept him as a teacher sent from heaven because he did not teach fasting and other forms of self-denial

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24. you are a hedonist or an ascetic

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25. At the age of thirteen he became interested in God, His love and the interconnectedness of all things, which instilled him the irresistible urge to shun all the niceties of life and take up the mantle of an ascetic

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26. The naked ascetic attracted a lot more attention to the already established religion of Jainism, and was reported to have as many as 400,000 followers during his lifetime 2,500 years ago

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27. He intended his monastic sect to be every bit as zealous, ascetic and righteous as any future dissenters; but, he conceded, “In my country we have a saying

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28. No ascetic renunciation here! Only energy; how to get more of it, how to connect

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29. Hitler was this religion's ascetic saint

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30. The IITian and the Gandhian; the tech-savvy mobilizer and the crowd-pulling ascetic; the urban activist and a rural folk hero—Kejriwal and Anna forged a unique partnership that, by August 2011, had the mighty Indian state bending before it

31. Where, indeed, could the Apostle have turned for peace of heart, for satisfaction of conscience, for hope in a world to come, if he had gone away from the synagogue of Capernaum with the deserters, and left Christ 1854 years ago! Would he have found what he wanted among the formal Pharisees, or the sceptical Sadducees, or the worldly Herodians, or the ascetic Essenes, or the philosophical schools of Athens, Alexandria, or Rome? Would Gamaliel, or Caiaphas, or Stoics, or Epicureans, or Platonists, have quenched his spiritual thirst, or fed his soul? It is waste of time to ask such questions

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32. She was so effective in her arguments and would have nothing to do with Ravan,refusing to become his concubine She was kept captive in a beautiful garden called ashok vatika Guarded by enunchs ,living like a ascetic praying and fasting

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33. beings whom he regards as living, there is no one whom the ascetic can

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34. Paramhans is an honorific title used for an ascetic of the highest order, one who has learnt perfect control of his

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35. ition that he had been an ascetic during his last seven births

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36. yogi, an ascetic or saint, engaged in constant meditation

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37. - The ASCETIC is one who practises severe austerities and mortifica-

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38. But the ascetic, the man

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39. 20) claims that Nicolaus was an ascetic, and then current Nicolaitans were not his true followers because they perverted his teaching that it was necessary to abuse the flesh

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40. It was reported that some Muslim women said to the Lady Aisha (may God be pleased with her): “There is a man, ascetic and Sufi, putting wool on his body, walking barefooted and running in the roads

41. But she said: “He is not an ascetic

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42. But as elites conspire to eliminate the trappings of Christmas in their quest for revolutionary liberation, they end up imposing a sociopolitical control more strident than anything concocted by the most repressed ascetic

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43. and ascetic life previously existed? Would he not have

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44. always be a community of ascetic Jews in the diamond business on Mars,” Tim

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45. First, the Hindu"s idea of the highest way of living is that of the holy ascetic and there are many kinds of hermits that lead a very frugal and solitary life

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46. I once read a book on such holy, ascetic yogis and swamis and was unable to feel the slightest empathy or understanding for their path to holiness

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47. A harsh, ascetic, holy face

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48. What I am pointing out is that; it is entirely feasible and practical to not only have a simpler more ascetic lifestyle using less tools: but that you can have more fun and be happier doing so by simply playing more than you work… by changing your values, perspective and priorities around 180 degrees

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49. So they made a virtue out of necessity; and practiced an ascetic lifestyle that came to be admired by the other Greek warrior cultures

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50. To actually practice an ascetic, non-accumulating lifestyle… to willingly give up the concepts of accumulation and ownership

51. Before I proceed, let me tell you there is nothing ascetic in what I

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52. tattoo than just ascetic value, and to prove her point she reached into the dip of her

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53. 1, that the 'Spirit announces’ an ascetic apostasy, 'forbidding to marry,’ and 'compelling to fast,’ under the 'inspiration of daemons’ (daimoni>wn)

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54. The world has already suffered too much from systems founded on a handful of wrested quotations, even of the English translation, of Scripture, to allow of much reticence in repudiating these hermeneutical methods, whether of heated enthusiasts or ascetic priesthoods

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55. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians, with the fierce ascetic diatribes of Tertullian, the incredible futility of much that remains even of Justin, the lame interpretations of Origen and Clement

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56. The truth unhappily is, that these saintly men had either forgotten, or never learned, some of the principal peculiarities of Christ’s religion, and were driving hard along the road of a falsely philosophic and thence ascetic superstition

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57. She 'showed her treasures to the ambassadors from Babylon,’ and learned their speech; she 'went down to Egypt for help,’ and 'leaned not on the Lord of Hosts;’ she 'trafficked with Javan,’ and 'committed fornication with Tyre and Sidon;’ she received her doctrine from the ascetic heathenism of the Athenian and Alexandrian philosophies, rather than from the 'unlearned’ but inspired apostles of the Incarnate Word

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58. during the times of their ascetic isolation in mountain caves during

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59. prayers and ascetic experience that attachment of prayer to any other

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60. Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead, but sleeping; and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes's ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes

61. A man of deep character, a man with an alert mind, grim, ascetic, self-contained, formidable—so I read Dr

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62. The Premier's thin, blue-veined hands were clasped tightly over the ivory head of his umbrella, and his gaunt, ascetic face looked gloomily from Holmes to me

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63. From the Intendencia he had gone straight on to the Avellanos's house to tell his brother-in-law, and though he stayed there no more than half an hour he had found himself cut off from his ascetic abode

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64. In addition to the above ecclesiastical orders, there are a great many minor orders: mendicant orders, nursing orders (usually but not always associated with the Order of Pasquale), charitable orders (usually but not always associated with the Order of Bédard or the Order of Pasquale), ascetic orders, etc

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65. For you, one may say, all the attractions of life nihil est—you are an ascetic, a monk, a hermit!

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66. Nevertheless, at certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this moment, astonishing the civilized world

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67. To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,—this is the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic

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68. In this respect, the ascetic and the sage converge

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69. There was something ascetic in her look, which was augmented by the extreme plainness of a straight-skirted, black, stuff dress, a starched linen collar, hair combed away from the temples, and the nun-like ornament of a string of ebony beads and a crucifix

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70. Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes's ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes

71. Paddling over it, you may see, many feet beneath the surface, the schools of perch and shiners, perhaps only an inch long, yet the former easily distinguished by their transverse bars, and you think that they must be ascetic fish that find a subsistence there

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72. But how can anyone tell how I should use my wealth ? In what way is it immoral, in what way is it degrading, that these millions should pass out of dirty, evil, Jewish hands into the hands of a sober and resolute ascetic with a keen outlook upon life ? All these dreams of the futvire, all these conjectures, seem like a romance now, and perhaps I am wasting time in recording them

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73. He was a tall, thin, but still vigorous old man, with black hair streaked with gray, and a long, grave, ascetic face

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74. What made him formidable was that a number of monks fully shared his feeling, and many of the visitors looked upon him as a great saint and ascetic, although they had no doubt that he was crazy

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75. He had been a celebrated ascetic, rigid in fasting and silence, and his tomb was pointed out to all visitors on their arrival with peculiar respect and mysterious hints of great hopes connected with it

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76. For it would have been discreditable to insist on burdening with the common regulations so great an ascetic, who prayed day and night (he even dropped asleep on his knees)

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77. He was ascetic through habit, contented himself with very little, and, like all those used to work from childhood and whose muscles have been developed, he could work much and easily, and was quick at any manual labour; but what he valued most was the leisure in prisons and halting stations, which enabled him to continue his studies

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78. It was clean-shaven, ascetic and of cameo-like clearness

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79. Plain papered walls, ascetic chairs, a moldy piano, and a couple of usherettes seemed extremely bare

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80. No, no, a wistful young ascetic, with hollows under his eyes—wan and worn with fasting and vigils