Sentences with phrase «conjugal chastity»

Thanks to West, many people are coming to conversion, healing and the pursuit of genuine conjugal chastity.

St Augustine insists that this virtue is a gift of God; an idea that he stresses elsewhere with special reference to marriage: «The very fact that conjugal chastity has such power shows that it is a great gift of God» (Contra Julianum, 3:43).

Within this mystery of redemption, as the Pope sees it, the sacramental graces of marriage, sustaining conjugal chastity, have a special effect in achieving the redemption of the body through the overcoming of concupiscence.

Under the heading of «Continence Protects the Dignity of the Conjugal Act», John Paul II insists: «Continence consists in the capacity to dominate, control and direct drives of a sexual character... The role of conjugal chastity, and still more precisely that of continence, lies not only in protecting the importance and dignity of the conjugal act in relation to its procreative meaning.

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More concretely, is there need for chastity in conjugal intercourse?

It censured libertinism and cruelty, and upheld the freedom to practice the good, chastity, virginity, innocence, conjugal fidelity, love of enemies, charity, abnegation, goodness toward the weak, and dignity for all human beings, created in the image and likeness of God.