Translation of "Kasteiung" in English

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?

One of the bases of our community is self-mortification and humiliation.

Eugene almost wept with mortification.

The basic idea of the Middle Way is a way which goes between indulgence in sensual pleasures on the one hand, and what you might call "self mortification" or "self tormenting" or "self torture" on the other hand

I think, that is kind of the underlying rational for, you know, self mortification, self torment and self torture.

And that pain, that comes through the senses is really equivalent to self mortification.

The internal search includes asceticism, isolation and concentration, through which unity with the divine can be attained.

To hide her mortification she used many tactics such as feigning to take food while her hands moved but nothing entered her mouth.

With all his limitations, which he always had before him, a continuous martyrdom of mortification, he always more clearly recognized that the most appropriate thing for him to do was to offer prayers and penances for the benefit of the ungrateful who did not take advantage of the gifts of grace.

He, as every other man, had to overcome the body with its wishes and desires, which were extremely strongly developed in him and therefore required extremely great self-control and mortifications.

It is not through mortification, neither through ascesis that the kingdom of heaven is given, but through jubilation and fullness, just now and not later.

In order to practice mortification of the senses, St. Gemma had recourse to the lash and the hair shirt, and the knotted cord and sharp points, with which she tightly girt herself.

Lived under the sign of the holy Cross, that day of joy for all, was for Anthony filled with mortification and intimate pain.

The heresy addressed appears to be either a Jewish-Gnosticism or a mix between Jewish asceticism and Greek (Stoic?) philosophy.

Lived under the sign of the holy Cross, that day of joy for all, was for Anthony filled with mortification and intimate pain.

Indian asceticism is not a mournful gospel of sorrow or a painful mortification of the flesh in morbid penance, but a noble effort towards a higher joy and an absolute possession of the spirit....

The kingdom is not given though mortification neither through asceticism but through jubilation and completeness, now and not later.

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 Christˆian doctrine of sanctification through sorrow, suffering, and the mortification of the flesh.

At the same time this building is a clear sign for all those that believe that a pilgrim only comes nearer to his inner goal through self-chastisement: the Dorfwirt's chapel.

We too can speak often with Jesus in the privacy of our hearts, asking Him how He practiced humility, goodness, forgiveness, mortification and all the other virtues, then praying to Him to give us the grace to imitate Him.

It was a period for reflection on the misery of the human condition, on the precariousness of life, on the futility of engagement, somewhere between culpability and mortification, lucidity and cynicism, doubt and despair.

It was so important to me, that it didn't feel like a constraint, as some kind of asceticism.