I realized what the Orientals mean by contemplation and the forsaking of works.

A temporary forsaking of one indulgence for another.

Humility consists in the knowledge of self and the forsaking of self.

Not a forsaking, a cure.

As to desire no outward thing worketh internal peace, so the forsaking of self inwardly joineth unto God.

Fleshgod Apocalypse released a music video for "The Forsaking" from the album Agony on December 22, 2012.

The Mwangaza has mortgaged our birthright to the Kinshasa fatcatsf Forsaking Hannah, he places himself in front of me.

Sagewhisker thus takes Yellowfang on as an apprentice, and Yellowfang takes the medicine cats' vows, including the forsaking of taking a mate.

"The Counts learned about the Shakers' high standards of conduct and workmanship, their forsaking of material ownership and pride, their fabled tolerance, gender equality, and non-violence.

His Indian readings may have influenced his later experiments in simple living: at one point in Walden Thoreau wrote: "I realized what the Orientals meant by contemplation and the forsaking of works."

His forsaking of evil serves two purposes: It parodies the types of sudden conversions found in pastoral romances, and it allows Celia to fall in love with him, thus providing another couple for the climactic wedding scene.

The first recorded use in English is in the Cursor Mundi, c. 1300; the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) records a figurative use as well: "The forsaking of God for idols".

By comparison, they argue, the African National Congress has been too soft on whites, with its forsaking of armed struggle during negotiations, its talk of sharing power with the white minority, and its emphasis on economic stability over economic retribution.

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And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate; 2 Nephi 16:12 12 And the Lord have removed men far away, for there shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

I will never forsake you even to the end of the.

But then, she had been alone and forsaken for three years.

We can only hope the Sun will not forsake us.

We never thought that you would one day forsake her.

Will you come back to me, now I'm old and forsaken?

But now the god's will was done, and he had forsaken me.

Our king has forsaken the present, returned to the past.

No matter what you do with me, I am not going to forsake this position.

But man had forsaken violence as a world and individual policy.

If that is so, and she has forsaken me, then I know why.

Perhaps it's the good girl who has to forsake the most to win the boy.

She'd come too close to forsaking everything she believed in.

Nor did You forsake me in my hour of need.

In effect, she would forsake her own child to save two others.

Men who forsake the outside world for old laws in books.

Companies of their own will refused to forsake the line.

You promised then not to forsake me when my time comes.

Dead or alive, he must believe that she had forsaken him.

"I and thousands like me are forsaking everything for what we believe," the man said.

But should we really save an entire class of people, forsaking all others?

"She believed that you were dead or had forsaken her."

So intellectuals have forsaken the public and found a home in the university.

He must be made to believe his Mistress has forsaken him.

He loved his brother and the country that had forsaken him.

He still found it hard to believe that people would actually live in what appeared to be such a God forsaken place.