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Example sentences for "live according"

  • Most people seem to believe that they are free, in so far as they may obey their lusts, and that they cede their rights, in so far as they are bound to live according to the commandments of the divine law.

  • For whatsoever causes men to live together in harmony also causes them to live according to reason (IV.

  • How much better it would be for those misguided persons to live according to our will, and earn the reward of pleasing us.

  • For what profit is there in having removed the turmoil of the Barbarians, unless we live according to law?

  • Meanwhile do you, whom our judgments thus venerate, live according to the ordinances of the Church.

  • I told you on another occasion: the less we live according to our own liking, and the less option we have in our actions, the more goodness and solidity will there be in our devotion.

  • Hence, as I have said before, my dear daughter, to live according to the spirit is to have our actions, our words and our thoughts such as the spirit of God would require of us.

  • Adopting the means of subsistence that is followed by the birds, those Rishis, conversant with every duty of righteousness, live according to the Unchha mode.

  • They that are righteous among the Sudras never betake themselves to such hypocrisy under the plea that persons of the Sudra order are not permitted to live according to any of the four prescribed modes.

  • Its original title was, A Confession of Faith, generally and unanimously maintained by Believers dispersed throughout the Low Countries who desire to live according to the purity of the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • And so the chief good is to live according to nature, with the best disposition and the most suitable to nature that can be engendered.

  • Wherefore, when we say that the chief good to all animals is to live according to nature, this must be understood as if we said that they had all the same chief good.

  • To live according to Nature is to live according to a man's whole nature, not according to a part of it, and to reverence the divinity within him as the governor of all his actions.

  • It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live according to nature (xii.

  • Let me only know what it is to live according to Nature.

  • As you are subject to the bishop as to Christ, you seem not to live according to men, but according to Jesus Christ.

  • The Franks, when they established themselves in Gaul, allowed the Roman Gauls to live according to their own laws and customs, and tolerated their use of slaves, but gradually mitigated their servitude.

  • They buried St. William's body in his little garden, and studied to live according to his maxims and example.

  • Rational creatures likewise make nature their end, but this is to live according to reason, for reason becomes in them the artist who produces inclination,” i.

  • But should God hear the peasants, who sincerely desire to live according to His word: Who will oppose the will of God?

  • We are to live according to His commandments, not according to the promptings of the flesh; but shall love God as our Master, and recognise Him as the one nearest to us.

  • Nevertheless, no one can doubt that it is much better for us to live according to the laws and assured dictates of reason, for, as we said, they have men's true good for their object.

  • He was forced to give them this demonstration of his kindness and affection to them, to live according to the laws of their countries.

  • To the large majority of people there is no such choice: they are forced to live according to their means, the meagerness of which in many instances keeps them almost exclusively to a vegetal diet, and to the least nutritive, at that.

  • Nevertheless everyone is able to live according to these commandments; and he who is wise does so live as a civil man, as a moral man, and as a natural man.

  • Pope has here adopted the sentiments of the Grecian sage who said, "That if we live according to nature we shall never be poor, and if we live according to opinion we shall never be rich.

  • Let me only know what it is to live according to nature.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "live according" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    deadly wound; hearty meal; iron vessel; live after the flesh; live again; live and; live births; live happily; live stock; live through; live under; live upon; live well; lived here; lived together; lively faith; livestock production; livestock products; livestock raising; military officers; minded people; own that; people shall; promised myself; purely intellectual; warm climates