Thy offering is accepted; but thou must not expect yet to enter into the austerities of our holy order.
The light-hearted, in rebellion against the austerities of their Puritan neighbours, plunged into excesses, and the more serious subsided into a round of domestic drudgery.
With the excesses of the court on the one hand and the austerities of the Puritans on the other, there was a constant interaction going on, each party goading the other into greater extremes.
We have seen that Wesley disapproved these austerities as "well intended but not well judged.
Certainly the saint's austerities at Liguje would not attract the world.
Clearly the superior of an Order whose vows are not too strict, and whose austerities respect the weakness of the sex.
What kept her away from it was the fear of being obliged through obedience to moderate her austerities and quit her solitude.
From that moment Catherine, rising above the weakness of her age and sex, applied herself to those amazing austerities which have made her a prodigy of penance.
And in these kinds of austerities he spent the remainder of his life and made a holy end, and purchased an eternal paradise, for having had but a sight of the pains of Purgatory.
I have seen far greater austerities than these: they are but roses and perfumes in comparison of what I have seen in the subterraneous lakes of Purgatory.
There the goddess practised the severest austerities for five and ten billions of years, all the while standing upon one foot.
Those that can take up their residence in the woods and by performing austerities for a long period can wash themselves of their sins, succeed in obtaining the objects on which they set their hearts.
In the absence of royal protection Brahmanas would never study the four Vedas or undergo austerities or be cleansed by knowledge and rigid vows.
Observing the most rigid vows, that camel practised very severe austerities in the forest.
Kings practise severe austerities for the sake of enabling their subjects go on prosperously in their avocations.
Riding on the vehicle that helps towards the performance of scriptural and other duties, I practised, in those two forms, undying austerities on the breast of Gandhamadana[1876] At that time the great sacrifice of Daksha took place.
Indeed, for thoseausterities and for their energy, the very deities were unable to look at them.
Those original regents of the world who had taken birth as the sons of Dharma, became exceedingly emaciated in person in consequence of the austerities they had undergone.
After she practised such exceedingly severe austerities in that place, Brahman of great energy once more said unto her, 'Do thou accomplish my behest, O Death!
The asylum where Mahadeva had undergone those austerities is encompassed on all sides with a blazing fire.
Once on a time, a Rishi of the name of Sthulasiras was engaged in practising very severe austerities on the northern breasts of the mountains of Meru.
Is it not contrary to all the notions which we can form of the goodness and wisdom of the Divinity, that religion should form into duties both abstinence and privations, or that penitences and austerities should be the sole proofs of virtue?
Of the pious Rites, Prayers, and Austerities of Christianity You now know, Madam, what you ought to attach to the mysteries and ceremonies of that religion you propose to meditate on, and adore in silence.
Monks and nuns complained, not without cause, that austerities were expected from them which were not included in the rules to which they vowed obedience.
The third was in a Boar, the fourth in a Man-Lion, the fifth in the Dwarf who deceived Bali, who had become so powerful by austerities as to conquer the gods and take possession of Heaven.
He is to perform various sacrifices with offerings of fruits and flowers, practise austerities by exposing himself to heat and cold, and "for the purpose of uniting his soul with the Divine Spirit he must study the Upanishads.
Although disapproving of the Brahmanic austeritiesas an end, he practised them during six years, in order to subdue the senses.
His austerities were excessive, and fasting is said to have weakened his body.
He practised austerities and mortifications, and slept with a coffin by his bedside, to remind him of the insecurity of this earthly life.
Luckily for her, the austerities of the Sabbath were manifest even here; the bar-room was closed, and the usual loungers in the passages were absent.
It occurred to him now for the first time, as he looked around upon that compromise of their two lives in this chilly artificial home, that it was only natural that she would prefer the more truthful austerities of her mother's house.
It had been much more disfigured, however, by her austerities and by her last illness.
As Lent approached, she increased herausterities till at last she reached the climax of all.
It was only by questioning Therese after the death of Kateri that the full extent of their austerities became known, for they were careful to conceal them from the knowledge of all.
Moreover, religious austerities and abnegations spring from or produce a character, to which the vices and virtues of a feudal aristocracy are alike opposed.
She learns of widowhood and the life-long austerities imposed on a woman whose sin-haunted destiny drags her husband to the grave.
Like lengthening shadows of evening creeping over the silent ruin, death was fast drawing the shades of its final night over the austerities and the virtues of Alvira.
Her austerities and fervor increased until they reached the degrees of heroic sanctity.
By the performance of austerities he gained from the gods the boon to reclaim some land from Varuna, the sea god.
At their first meeting they were so scandalized to see him look so well and hearty instead of emaciated by austerities that they refused to pay him any respect.
At the end of twelve years of austerities he heard a voice calling to him and asking what he desired.
I put it to you, men whose heads time has crowned with white, or sprinkled with a sober gray, if you would deem it salutary to enforce on your grandchildren the Sabbath austerities which your parents imposed on you?
The monk and severe student of Pontigny found rest neither in his austeritiesnor his studies.
Thomas alone amongst them had a hold on the imagination of the people through his austerities and his daring.
Let us make good use of our austerities and no longer preserve the memories of our crimes amongst the severities of penance.
We have bound ourselves to severe austerities and must follow them at all costs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "austerities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
