Sentences with phrase «desert hermits»

He read the Lives of the Fathers and wondered at the austerities of the desert hermits: «I used to imagine such a saint, who would live in the desert, and abstain from food and drink and live on a few vegetables and roots and cold water.»

Writings about the early desert hermits tell of the seductress somehow finding her way to a solitary who leads a life of prayer and meditation.

This was an asceticism of a novel sort, worldly and systematic, looking forward to the time - and - profit calculus of industrial life rather than backward to the flesh - denying torments of the desert hermits.

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There is a wonderful story of two Desert Fathers that goes like this: Two hermits lived together for many years without a quarrel.

This led some of the more devout to escape the temptations of public life and go into the desert, either as hermits or to live in communities.

But let's throw all that science out because some really poor hermits in the desert wrote a book a few thousand years ago.

But 15 years after their fashion heyday, the two are living in obscurity, with Zoolander pursuing the life of a hermit and Hansel living in the desert in an 11 - person marriage - a marriage that includes, in some screenwriter's flight of demented inspiration, Kiefer Sutherland.

The itinerary starts from Spoleto, the beautiful medieval town of the Lombard Dukes, of the Renaissance frescoes of Pinturicchio, and of the legends of the holy forest of Mount Luco, where the Syrian hermits (the Fathers of the Deserts) used to hide for spiritual retreats.

People are not so stupid, they hear and read so much information about new phones one would need to be living as a hermit in a cave on top of a mountain in the middle of a desert NOT to know about screen resolution.