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ascetic sentence examples

  • He became a very famous ascetic, with a large following of fans.
  • A great ascetic, st nil was the founder of several monasteries.
  • Ascetic feats?
  • We also have people who are very ascetic, people who are historically -- a community called dervish.
  • They can be seen as wandering ascetics or living as hermits, and sometimes they travel in groups.
  • A king, who is proud and mighty, persecutes the religious ascetics that live in his realm and drives them out.
  • Ascetic monk.
  • Paul's nonconformity is not ascetic ( col 2:23 ).
  • Within talmudic judaism one can find the ascetic and as well as the ecstatic celebration of life.
  • The obvious difference was that john seems to be a solitary ascetic not a member of a community.
  • Ascetic tradition seems safer in a fallen world.
  • The mind boggles at the thought of that rather ascetic pontiff as the harold shipman of the vatican.
  • He became a very famous ascetic, with a large following of fans.
  • Ascetic struggles, o venerable one.
  • Ascetic ideal, in a more uncomplicated form than buddhism.
  • Ascetic practices to a handful of guardians.

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