Examples of using Mortification in English and their translations into Russian
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Mortification process?
Top Levin sighed with mortification.
Self mortification, I do not condone!
Those days were a continued inner mortification for me.
Mortification is his assault on the second.
Good monks andnuns enjoy their mortifications.
All I feel is shame and mortification while other men apparently get pleasure.
She's only killed two victims so far, and if Charlotte's right,today is the third day of the mortification process.
Self-denial and mortification of the flesh… that's what brings us closer to God!
So what happens if she doesn't kill and the mortification process continues?
Evelyn Underhill describes purification as an awareness of one's own imperfections and finiteness,followed by self-discipline and mortification.
Poverty was a part of the ritual of mortification which became incorporated into the teachings of many religions.
The sacrament of the Eucharist implies that eternal life became possible only after mortification of the earthy life of the Savior.
Private fasting is an act of self-denial and mortification of the flesh, a holy revenge upon ourselves and humiliation under the hand of God.
But she will have to kill again, within three days of the last feeding,to interrupt the mortification process.
Then he recovered his strength and concluded that mortification of the flesh is not the path to liberation from suffering.
After the exhausted"thief" drops to the ground comes the most difficult part- mortification of the flesh.
To Wagner's mortification these premieres took place, under Franz Wüllner, on 22 September 1869 and 26 June 1870 respectively.
Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty,celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church?
With Your grace,with prayer, mortification and confidence, I will do everything obedience permits me and You inspire me; the rest You must do Yourself.
Benbow proved to be a less than ideal tenant, as Evelyn was soon writing to a friend to complain that he had"the mortification of seeing everyday much of my former labours and expenses there impairing.
Poverty was just a part of the ritual of the mortification of the flesh which, unfortunately, became incorporated into the writings and teachings of many religions, notably Christianity.
When every day we try to hear the word of God and put it into practice, our inner self strengthens, and destruction, confusion,uncertainty, mortification, and resentfulness gradually subside.
Yet the self-inflicted"slaps on the cheek" and"blows under the ribs" find their pendants in the mortifications of the body and self-flagellation-"the discipline of the scourge"- of the Christian monks, from the first centuries of Christianity down to our own day.
In time these vows assumed the form of contracts with the gods and, in that sense,represented true evolutionary progress in that the gods were supposed to do something definite in return for this self-torture and mortification of the flesh.
The sometimes encountered monastic-ascetic disdain towards people and the world,a chilling of the heart, and the mortification towards everything alive, is a degeneration of Christianity, an impairment within Christianity.
As civilization advanced, these crude concepts of sacrifice were elevated to the level of the rituals of self-abnegation, asceticism, fasting, deprivation, and the later Christian doctrine of sanctification through sorrow,suffering, and the mortification of the flesh.
According to traditional spiritual teachings,this crossing involves mortifications and renunciations of all sorts(which, by the way, serve mainly to enhance the ascetic's high opinion of himself), but we are after something quite different.
To make vows of self-denial and self-torture. In time these vows assumed the form of contracts with the gods and, in that sense,represented true evolutionary progress in that the gods were supposed to do something definite in return for this self-torture and mortification of the flesh.
According to traditional spiritual teachings,this crossing involves mortifications and renunciations of all sorts(which, by the way, serve mainly to enhance the ascetic's high opinion of himself), but we are after something quite different. We do not seek to leave life but to widen it;