178 examples of expiations in sentences
Self-expiations, flagellations, sheepskin cloaks, root dinners, repulsive austerities, followed.
Religious contemplation Insoluble questions Self-expiations Basil the founder of Monasticism His interesting history Gregory Nazianzen Vows of the monks Their antagonism to prevailing evils Vow of Poverty opposed to money-making That of Chastity a protest against prevailing impurity Origin of celibacy Its subsequent corruption Necessity of the vow of Obedience Benedict and the Monastery of Monte Casino
They did not dispute Saint Augustine, but they adhered to penances and expiations, which entered so largely into the piety of the Middle Ages.
The idea of penances and expiations, pushed to their utmost logical sequence, was salvation by works and not by faith.
In his repentance he mortified himself with new self-expiations.
He sees the end of expiations: the sufferers will be restored to peace and joy.
Think of an education which impressed on the minds of interesting young girls that the trifling sins which they committed every day, and which proceeded from the exuberance of animal spirits, justly doomed them to everlasting burnings, without expiations,a creed so cruel as to undermine the health, and make life itself a misery!
Think of a spiritual despotism so complete that confessors and spiritual fathers could impose or remove these expiations, and thus open the door to heaven or hell!
After the love of God had subdued their hearts, we read but little of penances, or self-expiations, or forms of worship, or church ceremonies, or priestly rigors, or any of the slaveries and formalities which bound ordinary people.
Then when any such appearance visits you, Plato says, Have recourse to expiations, go a suppliant to the temples of the averting deities.
According to the doctrines of Buddhism, the world came into being as the result of some inexplicable disturbance in the heavenly calm of Nirvana, that blessed state obtained by expiation, which had endured so long a timethe change taking place by a kind of fatality.
The officer perceived that he had to do with one of those unequivocal hypocritesif such a word can properly be applied to him who scarcely thought deception necessarywho then made a traffic of expiations of this nature; a pursuit that was common enough at the close of the seventeenth and in the commencement of the eighteenth centuries, and which has not even yet entirely disappeared from Europe.
Life follows life, and each life fulfils its Karma of destined expiation, working out the earthly stain of previous existences.
The task of expiation is not yet completed, and, in the midst of anguish, corruption, and the flux of all material things, the human race goes swarming on.
The "ill-favoured ones" who are charged with Sir Eustace's expiation fix him at one moment "on the trembling ball That crowns the steeple's quiv'ring spire" just as the Opium-Fiend fixes De Quincey for centuries at the summit of Pagodas.
The sacrifice was intended for the expiation of the armies, and the prosperity of the arms of the people of Rome.
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CORWIN M. Expiation.
CORWIN M. Expiation.
That fierce weapon, known by the name of Brahma-sira which arose after Amrila, and which Rudra had obtained by means of ascetic austerities, hath been acquired by Arjuna together with the Mantras for hurling and withdrawing it, and the rites of expiation and revival.
That the miseries of this life are not expiations of sins? "Cease in your avaricious hoarding of wealth!
It does not aim at expiation.
Nobody, nothing has the right to exact expiation.
Expiation, then, is a word that has no application in the world.