Sentences with phrase «from celibate»

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Yes, I remember having taken them from a celibate Jesuit priest.

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If I understand your definition, a «practicing» heterosexual could be many things, from essentially uninterested in sex to celibate to profligate.

From what I've read, somewhere between 10 and 20 per cent of married couples are celibate.

Those who know from within what marriage may demand are often unimpressed with the claim of the celibate that his way of life is renunciation for the service of the higher good, even when it is conceded to be innocent altogether of any unconscious homosexuality.

Paul was celibate, but he did not appeal to a direct command from the Lord to support his position.

Matt and his team plan to feature everyone from pro-abstinence advocates, to gay rights activists, to Christians - turned - atheists, to pastors, to historians, to celibate Christians, to sexually active Christians.

Jesus and Magdalene are cousins, betrothed, but he receives a sign from God that he is divine and must remain celibate.

Certainly some homosexual (or celibate) life choices arise from a fear of the different in women (or men).

I think the only thing that will really be invitational, missional, relational, and humble, particularly when coming from people who have no personal experience with the issue, will be to accept gay Christians for who they are and accept their choice to be either partnered or celibate.

You are trying to move them from that fear, anxiety, anger, and intensity — prejudice — to simply believing that the Bible absolutely condemns gay sex as sin, that gay Christians need to be celibate to avoid hell, and to only discriminating against those who choose to actually have sex.

We know that asking a gay man or lesbian to be celibate (if not given that gift / calling from God) isn't a real possibility.

But church rules do bar anyone in a sexual relationship outside marriage from becoming a bishop - which implies that a gay man can become a bishop only if he is celibate.

Ben, celibate gay man who works with our GLBTQ youth ministry, said that it took him 9 years to come to his senses and he is so blessed to be healthy and free from the afflictions that have hobbled so many of those GLBTQ brothers and sisters who remain trapped in the twilight zone of fornication... separated from God and yet so close with the simple renunciation of sinful acts.

In recent years a growing consensus has maintained that what Jesus is saying about resurrection is distinctively different from either the feminist or the celibate interpretations.

Eastern Rite Catholics have a married clergy and celibate bishops (often drawn from the monasteries) and an Eastern liturgy similar to the Orthodox so there is precedent and an historic tradition for the ordinate.

Only this will prevent the pool of mandatory celibates» no matter how large or small that pool may be» from becoming a marginal and increasingly irrelevant and isolated ecclesial group.

And it uses some imprecise language about «self - conception,» apparently in order to disallow celibate, same - sex - attracted Christians from self - identifying as «gay.»

The Church permits clergy to be in same - sex relationships that are celibate but forbids them from marrying people of the same sex.

Being celibate should not exclude our religious and priests from the social life of the parish.

Luther was partly worried but also expressed himself as pleased with this and said he knew the girl's family, in a letter from the Wartburg — his middle - aged colleague would be delivered from the «unclean'troubles of the celibate.

Your comments — from LGBT readers and straight readers, from Side A Christians to Side B Christians, to celibate gay friends to partnered gay friends — have been enlightening, humbling, challenging, insightful, and civil.

As a celibate woman observing families from the outside, it often seems like folks are solely focused on their own nuclear families.

The study also discards all double standards of sexual ethics that judge women differently from men, single persons (including celibates) differently from married persons, and homosexuals differently from heterosexuals.

The article shows the same effect in both men who are sexually active and celibate, suggesting that they are not reacquiring the virus from another sexual partner.

These celibate species resulted from the hybridization of different sexual species, a process that instills the parthenogenetic lizards with a great amount of genetic diversity at the outset.

From living as a celibate monk and working as a marriage counselor, to everything else in between, each moment of Gray's life has shaped his impressive career.

Removed myself from a very long relationship, been single and celibate until I meet that special one.

snowmen and live very happy, very celibate lives far, far away from me..

The movie is droll on the subject of a reluctantly celibate man seeking advice from a man who's taken a vow of celibacy, but serious about O'Brien's religous inquiry.

Besides an array of lyrical lines, the film feature shots of Father Doyle as he attends to his flock, including touching moments ranging from tearful memorial services for victims of drive - by shootings to a show of compassion for a coke - addicted prostitute who unknowingly propositions the celibate cleric with «Your place or mine?»