Sentences with phrase «solitary life of prayer»

Paesius gave everything he had to churches, monasteries, and prisons, learned a trade to provide for his own needs, and devoted himself to a solitary life of prayer.

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God, the Prayer Book says in one of its collects, has set the solitary in families; and the man or woman who has not had some experience of family life is to that degree an impoverished human being.

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.