Translation for "purificar el alma" to english
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Se acuerda de aquella clase que usted... me dijo que las situaciones eran muy crueles. Y que la tortura era una forma, según ellos, un método para limpiar y purificar el alma... aunque el cuerpo se destruyera.
Do you remember that class when you said situations... were very cruel, and torture... according to them... was a way to purify the soul, even if the body was destroyed?
–¿ Os referís a la noche de ayuno en la iglesia para purificar nuestra alma?
Fasting the night in church, you mean, to purify our souls?
No discuto que sufra, contestó Byron, pero ese sufrimiento no purificará su alma.
I grant he suffers, said Byron, but his suffering will not purify his soul.
Desde entonces he desconfiado de todo lo que me reclama algo de mi sangre para purificar mi alma.
And ever since then, I’ve trusted anyone who required a little of my blood to purify my soul about as much as I would trust a scorpion.
¿Sabes que consideraban la música como el único medio de purificar el alma de la contaminación del cuerpo?
And did you know they also believed that the only way to purify the soul from the infections of the body was through music?
Buen tradicionalista, practicaba la abstinencia, no comía carne ni dulces ni bebía alcohol para purificar su alma y recibir la inspiración divina.
A traditionalist, he refrained from meat, alcohol, and sweets, in order to purify his soul and receive divine inspiration.
Algunos peregrinos vienen a elevar una súplica a Aei o en busca del consejo de los sacerdotes. Otros, simplemente para purificar su alma. —¿Donativos?
Some pilgrims come here to make a request of Aei or seek advice from the priests and priestesses, others simply to purify their souls.” “Offerings?”
Durante la semana de Pascua, no nos dejaban ir al cine (la Yaya decía que debíamos sacrificarnos todos para purificar nuestra alma) y Bailey y Joyce decidieron que jugáramos los tres a papá y mamá.
During Passover week we weren’t allowed to go to the movies (Momma said we all must sacrifice to purify our souls), and Bailey and Joyce decided that the three of us would play house.
Todo este lujo —William señaló con su esbelta mano las colgaduras de damasco y los muebles rococó— no es menos válido como instrumento del espíritu que el látigo que el monje cuelga en la pared de su celda y descuelga cada noche para purificar su alma.
All this luxury—William waved a slender hand at the damask hangings and rococo furniture—is no less an instrument of the spirit than the whip which the monk hangs on the wall of his cell and takes down nightly to purify his soul!
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