| God's offer of salvation is not a set of doctrines, however lofty, nor a code of ascetical principles. |
| Similarly, no conflict exists between public prayer and prayers in private, between morality and contemplation, between the ascetical life and devotion to the liturgy. |
| He especially condemned monastic pride, ascetical competition among monks, and placed humility at the summit of the spiritual life. |
| 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. |
| We received the blessing of the leader of the Giri branch of the Swami Order-a thin, ascetical monk with eyes of smiling fire. |
| Francis, members of the Third Order began to live in common, in an attempt to follow a more ascetical way of life. |
