Sentences with phrase «licentious living»

If I say that grace allows you to go sin all you want, you now are beginning to wonder if I am a false teacher who promotes licentious living.

Your belief that family planning is destructive to society and leads to licentious living and deadbeat dads is naively simplistic.

As pirate ships used to disguise themselves under honorable flags, so all manner of dissolute and licentious living sails today under the noble banner of independence.

In presenting these elemental Christian teachings in class I have often found that students are quick to ask the following question: if one took seriously Jesus» message that we do not have to earn our sense of feeling good about ourselves, would this not allow for an unrestrained, licentious life, believing that we are loved regardless of our behavior?

Based on French author Guy de Maupassant's contentious nineteenth - century novel, Bel Ami follows the licentious life of Parisian journalist Georges Duroy.

Not exact matches

Throughout his life, Sanders was notoriously licentious.

But the young man rubbed his eyes as if he had just woke up, and he looked towards the rays of the sun, and won the consideration of all who now had turned their attention to him; for he no longer showed himself licentious, nor did he stare madly about, but he had returned to his own self, as thoroughly as if he had been treated with drugs; and he gave up his dainty dress and summery garments and the rest of his sybaritic way of life, and he fell in love with the austerity of the philosophers, and donned their cloak, and stripping off his old self modeled his life in future upon that of Apollonius.

If some people are legalistic and others are licentious, wouldn't it be better, for the sake of unity, to just throw up our hands, shrug our shoulders, and say «Live and let live&raqLive and let live&raqlive»?

A British painter whose harrowing, anguished paintings and infamously licentious personal life have provided endless fodder for movie - makers, scholars, and artists alike, Francis Bacon has achieved the stature of a contemporary - art legend — all the more so now that his triptych portrait of his friend Lucian Freud made headlines when it sold for $ 142.4 million at Christie's, making it the priciest artwork to ever go under the hammer.