Sentences with phrase «celibate because»

No, priests are not celibate because Jeebus was celibate.

Their only claim to morality and responsibility here is that they (ISSI and ND) claim there is a demand for their services, that people are asking for help to become asexual so they can tolerate being celibate because they do not want to be in sin.

Just like if there were a ministry to help Wendy be celibate because what she and her husband share is «precluded» by God.

Sometimes, to be sure, men and women in an earlier age became celibate because of their fear of sexuality or because there was no other available place for them in society.

Patricia So, you remain celibate because you don't want anything to come between you and God?

Nobody is going to remain celibate because you claim it's the best course of action.

Not exact matches

He disagreed with me for implying he could not love God as much as a celibate priest because he was married.

Such questions may arise because people confuse the vocation of consecrated virginity with the taking of vows of celibate chastity by religious and the consecration to celibacy of the secular priesthood.

The group I know are single and living celibate lives and in a support group for discipleship and mutual encouragement which they do not find in the church, partly because of the church's mistaken expectation that they could «change if they really wanted to».

@Name * Ted DiDonato If gay people don't go to heaven just because they're gay and not willing to be celibate, then Heaven isn't for anyone decent.

Priests are celibate at least in part because it allows them to make Christ their bride, to devote all their energies to the other tasks set before us on this earth.

Because you are celibate, probably by necessity since no one will have you, you want to stamp out sex.

As I explain in my blog post, I only think that celibacy requires a devaluing of one's sexuality when at least one of the reasons someone is celibate is because they believe all of their sexual attractions are temptations to sin.

Part of the reason the future looked so bleak was because I couldn't look to many others who were living into compelling stories as celibate men and women, and the future story the church imagined for me hinged on marriage.

By giving up the solace of an earthly spouse and the prospect of birthing heirs, the celibate gestures with her very body to a future time when «they neither marry nor are given in marriage... because they are equal to angels» (Luke 20:35, 36).

I do respect Charles Stanley and Charles Ryrie because they stayed single and celibate after their wives divorcedd them.

It can also be pointed out that the key leaders of the marriage preparation movement were celibate clerics who could never function as «sponsors» in the literal sense of the term (because they were not married and not peers to the engaged), and this could easily explain why these leaders did not have a clear recognition that the educational assumptions / models used in the marriage preparation programs might be missing something valuable.

I do respect Charles Stanley and Charles Ryrie because they stayed single and celibate after their wives divorcedd them.