St. Poemen and his six brothers had all deserted their mother to cultivate the perfections of an ascetic life.
During a journey through Gaul and the provinces of the Rhine and Moselle he seems to have formed the fixed resolve to devote himself to theology and an ascetic life.
His ambition was now directed to an ascetic life, in which his personal performances were most remarkable.
A boy of fourteen years of age led among them an ascetic life of great perfection.
Poets and orators found no favour at his court, which was thronged by divines and men of ascetic life.
Woollen garments were frequently worn by men of ascetic life in the early times of Islam in order (as Ibn KhaldAºn says) that they might distinguish themselves from those who affected a more luxurious fashion of dress.
But when he bemoans the loss of the friend of his youth, when he tells of his resolution to embrace an ascetic life, he is nervously animated, and is as psychologically dramatic as Balzac.
His pleading in favour of ascetic life and of virginity, that entirely Christian virtue, was very influential.
He had known the truth as if by instinct from the first; no life was possible except an ascetic life, at least for him.
They were allowed to withdraw into solitude, and lead an ascetic life, or to travel from one place to another to preach the law and make converts.
At that time there were three distinguished and far-famed teachers who presided over a vast number of Rathees or disciples leading an ascetic life.
He quitted estate, friends, and country to serve God in an ascetic life.
Pachomius came one day to inspect the monastery, he saw that this fig-tree was a cause of self-indulgence and gluttony to some of the younger aspirants after an ascetic life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ascetic life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
