Sentence examples for read the lives from inspiring English sources

In between these hardships, she converted to Catholicism, her husband's faith, and read the lives of the saints, finding particular solace in the stories that involved martyrdom.

It was mainly the Moralia that appealed to them, but in the 9th century the Byzantine scholar and patriarch Photius read the Lives with his friends.

And it is thrilling to read: the lives of slaves, alcoholics, bad women and terrible men at different points in history, all black, all valid.

We read the lives of our ancestors, our antecedents, in a single gulp, it seems, as if they could be so easily digested.

As a child she read the lives of the saints, and kept a map of the world on her wall, where she marked sites of missionary work.

· Read the live review of Glenn Branca.

THE key question in the bishops' poll, on the other hand, included a line that read, "the live embryos would be destroyed in their first week of development".

When we dealt with utilitarianism last spring, we read The Live You Can Save by Peter Singer.

But sometimes I wonder if it's better to simply look the other way, not watch the TV summaries or read the live feeds on the BBC and Guardian homepages.

I sat in stunned silence after reading the Lives column about Amy Richards (as told to Amy Barrett, July 18).

"In reading the lives of great people," a recent one read, "I found that the first victory they ever won was over themselves".