| In general, any settled dwelling place has been unacceptable to the ascetic mentality, as noted in ascetical movements in many religions. |
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| He especially condemned monastic pride, ascetical competition among monks, and placed humility at the summit of the spiritual life. |
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| God's offer of salvation is not a set of doctrines, however lofty, nor a code of ascetical principles. |
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| But it is especially in the Preface that the Founder sets forth a demanding ascetical program. |
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| For this reason, religious communities must not only be prayerful groups but also ascetical communities in the Church. |
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| His life was a deeply ascetical one, letting go of false images of God, destroying the idols of his mind, so as to be ready for God's self gift when the moment was ripe. |
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| According to his ascetical concept, mortification, particularly perfect obedience and humility, were the surest means to advance on the way toward sanctity. |
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| At the accession of the Orthodox emperor Justin I in 518, Philoxenus was exiled to Philippopolis, now Plovdiv, Bulg., where he continued his polemical and ascetical writings during the rigours of captivity. |
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| This yearning for fulfilment in God, in an uninterrupted nostalgia of the heart which with unceasing desire turns to the contemplation of the Bridegroom, feeds the ascetical commitment of the cloistered nun. |
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| This programme should include a period of daily eucharistic adoration and provide for exercises of Marian devotion, liturgical prayer, personal meditation and the habitual ascetical practices. |
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| As long as there is struggle, ascetical struggle, there is interior life. |
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| Similarly, no conflict exists between public prayer and prayers in private, between morality and contemplation, between the ascetical life and devotion to the liturgy. |
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| The ascetical tradition says that though 3 we carry various kinds of baggage we are not shackled prisoners: we can make a start in becoming new persons, and our freedom increases as we progress. |
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| Francis, members of the Third Order began to live in common, in an attempt to follow a more ascetical way of life. |
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| Psychologists, schoolteachers, sociologists, doctors and theologians from the different branches of theology, moral, ascetical and mystical, were asked to give their opinions. |
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| Secondly, can we not describe perfection in ways that are consonant with its use in ascetical literature? |
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| For reasons of guilt, they are very strict in their observance, even ascetical and self-punishing. |
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| First, it embodies a classic ascetical strategy for applying formulaic principles to intended actions. |
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| But interest among the young in general later fell back, in some cases because they realised that the church offered hard, ascetical discipline rather than faddish, feel-good mysticism. |
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