But he was not to be denied and urged that the Buddha admitted women to be capable of attaining saintship and that it was unjust to refuse the blessings of religion to one who had suckled him.
This deliverance he called saintship (arahattam) or nirvana of which I shall say something below.
I will hear thee finish the dream afterward," fussed the King, rising in a bustle; for he prized his saintshipnext to his poetry.
All over again, even though she had spent those few hours of freedom in a perfect passion of purification, so that she might return to her saintshiponce more.
Miss Seymour's saintship was somewhat rudely tested by this remark.
No matter through what labyrinths of fashionable follies and dissipation they had been wandering, still a talent for saintship was lying dormant in their natures, which it needed only the touch of love to develop.
Saintship belonged to the mediæval Church; the heroism of religion has died with it.
His saintship was larger around the body, too, and (between ourselves) he had a pair of thimbles in his mouth, which this gentleman certain has not.
At the same time there was not much hope of saintship except through celibacy and monkhood; for in true Buddhism the notion of holy family-life was almost a contradiction in terms.
But according to the 'Great System,' it was a mistake to limit the acquisition of the highestSaintship in this manner.
He who satisfied the usual requirements of Saintship received the rank of an Arhat in both systems.
Vain ev'ry hint by Nature given, His saintship would not mind her; At length his soul flew back to heaven, And left her bones behind her.
Yet the difference in the saintship of Deen Ali, the original, and Inam Ali, the present incumbent of the shrine, lay more in their surroundings than in themselves.
Curious holdings these, burdened at times by quaint conditions in return for official canonization; for in those days saintship paid.
His saintship was larger around the body, too, and (between ourselves) he had a pair of thimbles in his mouth, which this gentleman certainly has not.
Saintship belonged to the mediaeval Church; the heroism of religion has died with it.
The University of France repaid Charlemagne for the service she had received from him; she protected his saintship as he had protected her schools and her scholars.
His saintship was welcomed with acclamation in a great part of Germany, where it had always been religiously kept up.
It does not appear that, in the Church of France, the saintship of Charlemagne was any the more generally admitted and kept up; but the University of Paris faithfully maintained its traditions, and some two centuries after Louis XI.
Thus saintship is effected probably; No sparing saints the process!
But on this Eed he took off the sign of saintship ere he began work; yet as he worked he shivered as if he were cold without it.
But no woman living during Anglo-Norman times has been thus honoured, for the desire to raise women to saintship was essentially Anglo-Saxon and was strongest in the times which immediately followed the acceptance of Christianity.
Amiable and good, but so feeble of intellectual outlook that it would be too much to ask of us, with our Protestant and modern education, to feel anything but indulgent pity for the kind of saintship which she embodies.
We have to pass a similar judgment on the whole notion of saintship based on merits.
We shall see examples of it from the annals of Catholic saintship which makes us rub our Protestant eyes.
The annals of Catholic saintship abound in records as ecstatic or more ecstatic than this.
But in our Father's house are many mansions, and each of us must discover for himself the kind of religion and the amount of saintship which best comports with what he believes to be his powers and feels to be his truest mission and vocation.
His dreams of saintship were not fulfilled, for his name never figured in the calendar.
In this desire he seems to have acted in good faith, and all his life the dream ofsaintship haunted him.
No sooner was he named Superior than he sought to qualify himself for saintship by a sort of royal road.
I'll never believe in Philip's saintship again," cried her husband triumphantly.
Above all, why had he brought his saintship with him?
If it's saintship to be rude and call other people thieves I'm glad I'm a sinner, that's all.
China sacrificed must be a great means of saintship to women.
Saintship belonged to the medieval Church; the heroism of religion has died with it.
There is a letter extant from Sister Anne de Ste Claire, an Ursuline who came to Quebec in 1640, written soon after her arrival, and containing curious evidence that a reputation ofsaintship already attached to Marie de l'Incarnation.
The halo of saintship glittered in her eyes like a diamond crown, and she aspired to outshine her sisters in humility.
He resolved to quit for a season all human society, and enter upon one of those desolate periods of retreat from earthly converse well known in the annals of saintship as most prolific in spiritual victories.
You were supposed to insist upon his more saintly qualities, but there is some difficulty in associating attributes of saintship with eminent politicians during their lifetime, and at the same moment keeping your face straight.
The Roman Church, in its sagacity, defers consideration ofsaintship until long after the decease of the candidates for canonisation.
