Sentences with phrase «life than sex»

An Asian student mentions the Buddhist emphasis on tolerance and peace, adding, «There is so much more to life than sex, television, clothes, and money and all that stuff.»

«On Chesil Beach» has both a rich sense of how much more there is to life than sex, and also an acute awareness of how sex can overwhelm everything else.

Then as she finds customers who are more interested in her personal life than sex, she tries to become friendly and then shares much information out.

He cared more about their lives than their sex lives it seems.

Not exact matches

Salvation, Graham believed, was the ultimate holy reward for clean eating and living — and not having sex more than once a month.

We tell couples that just because they wait, their sex life will be great, rather than preparing them for the potential issues that might arise along the way.

(Wilcox does not mention the recent and widely publicized finding that evangelical wives have better sex lives with their husbands than religiously unaffiliated do with theirs, but it seems to follow that this would be so.)

For example, there are data to indicate that persons living on the west coast or in the northeast are more likely than midwesterners and southerners to have had extramarital affairs, to have had an abortion, or to have had sex with sixty - one or more persons, and they are also less likely to find one - night stands degrading.

To live celibacy well requires in some ways a deeper healing, and a more dramatic inner transformation than opposite sex marriage would require.

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

The challenge facing the church is to discard the unproven scientific theories of the 1980's and 1990's; to understand the scientific evidence that shows non-reverable sexual orientations; and to give the gay believer in Christ mercy to be married for life to the same sex spouse (rather than to continue to insist on the sacrifice of celibacy).

Whenever sex is these things, it can not help but be wrong, for it destroys rather than creates life.

I also was aware of the hypocrisy of how «gay» sin, or «non-virgin» sin, or other «moral» issues, were regarded far far differently than sins of omission, white lies, tax fudging, white collar crime in general (who is more sinful, the girl that has sex before marriage, or the CEO that knows his company is lax on pollution standards that affect the health of hundreds / thousands of people and animals that live nearby)

My sex life is probably more ethical and honest than most married couples is.

That kind of historical evidence has emerged often enough to suggest that rather than having enormous premature babies, ordinary people like Hannah and Elijah were having premarital sex (Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations, by P. Laslett [Cambridge University Press, 1977]-RRB-.

Producers come from three underprivileged groups: women rescued from sex trafficking or abuse, those suffering from HIV / AIDS and people living on less than $ 1 a day.

A man who thinks that nothing is more important than the satisfaction of the sex urge can not understand the meaning of chastity; a man who ranks the amassing of material things as the supreme end of life can not understand generosity; and a man who has never a thought beyond this world can not understand the things of God.

Those whose sex life is satisfying and beautiful may have intercourse with less frequency than unhappy couples who are frantically proving their sexuality or searching for a solution to their emotional pain.

Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.

Human beings seek more in life than food, water, shelter, and sex; more even than self - esteem, social acceptance, and love.

The point Grenz was trying to make is that sexuality is much bigger than a desire for sex and therefore single people can live and flourish as sexual beings apart from marriage.

And some gay people feel that gay sex is wrong (and many have at some point in their lives), so they are clearly capable of taking a moral stand on the issue (without the physical components of their brains being any different than someone who makes a different choice).

We know what that is as Jesus told us «Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends» (Jn15: 13) Sex is part of God's plan to share His life and love with us in Jesus Christ.

In a 2009 study in Journal of American College Health, B.J. Willoughby and J.S. Carroll found that «students living in co-ed housing were also more likely [than those in single - sex residences] to have more sexual partners in the last 12 months.»

And maybe same - sex unions could be called something else than Holy Matrimony, namely, Holy Unions — which embody the eschatological life of the Spirit.

Research indicates that students in single - sex residences are significantly less likely to engage in binge drinking and the hookup culture than students living in co-ed student residences.

Younger Christians are weary of pitched cultural battles and are longing for the «real Jesus» — a Jesus who talks more about washing feet and feeding the poor than flashpoint issues like same - sex marriage and the sanctity of life.

And what are the best ways for Christians to talk about and live their faith in a culture that thinks sex and chores are more important to family life than religion?

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

... Now will you take sixty seconds to bring yourself to your present age, still a member of the other sex... notice what you do differently than you did in real life... notice how you feel about it all... (The leader waits at this point for about sixty seconds.)

As I looked at the issue myself, I recognised that the traditional biblical view pointed to same - sex practice as wrong, and less than God's best for my life.

Less is recorded from the lips of Jesus than the pen of Paul about sex relations, but it is unlikely that our Lord ever expected celibacy to be exalted as the pattern of life for the «religious,» as is the practice of the Roman Catholic Church.

This article is not meant to simply turn you away from getting married; it's an invitation to see your life as bigger than simply a hedonistic pursuit of sex.

There's more to life than partying, drugs, sex and alcohol.

I can assure all of you we have better sex together than any of the non christian people just living together.

there is nothing better than uninhibited sex with the one you have committed your life to.

You should marry someone with a compatible temperament, similar goals, whose company you enjoy, etc. rather than marry someone with whom sex is superb but is otherwise a poor choice for a life mate.

But I do know it won't happen by even more furious denunciations of others, by focusing on politics rather than prayer, by concerning ourselves with the sex lives and heretical thoughts of others rather than with the constant struggle to liberate ourselves from what keeps us from God.

Forget the millions of viewers at home — is there anything more mortifying for a grown man than having to talk about your sex life in front of your mom?

That meant I was not going to a dinner on his fathers best friends arm, That he counted for more than my friends and any one else, And from that second on under his roof he was the final judge and arbiter in all things, that he was tired of blackmail with sex and the next person that held him with a weapon he might kill outright, and if I did nor submit after the hell we put him through he might decide I was worth less than a bugs life, I ran for the door and he shredded my outfit I was begging him that he was going to do something.

He may feel anxious about upcoming expenses, your health insurance coverage, the pain that you'll feel during pregnancy or delivery, what life will be like with three rather than two, and the effects of pregnancy on your sex life.

I am enjoying my life and doing things that I haven't done in years and even though my husband is suffering from illness and that our sex life is zero I am discovering sex toys which I must admit are at times better than the real thing!

Nothing speaks more to that than when Margot briefly imagines sharing her bad - sex fling with Robert with a sympathetic boyfriend at some point in life — only to realize that she'll probably never find a man she'll feel comfortable being herself around and sharing her past with without facing his judgment: «but of course there was no such future, because no such boy existed, and never would.»

Other than that, we really live like two room mates — even the sex is sporadic and lacks passion and love.

Age 32 Career fitness model & alpinist Marriage — 8 total years with dating Sex life — 2 - 3 times a year Age difference — he's 11 years older than me Kids — one kid & obviously done LOL

What she is saying is that she loves her husband but needs a different kind of sex life than what he provides.

Basically, at this point, other than for sex, I ignore women, because I know any early steps in a relationship ends with a grimace on her part when she finds out I live in a basement.

Rather than marrying 20 times or more in one's life via serial monogamy, we can keep one emotional lover and just have casual, meaningless — and hot — sex with strangers (oftentimes in threesomes with their partner).

About 93 percent of us say faithfulness is a must to make a marriage successful — even more so than having a happy sex life, sharing household chores, and having similar passions and interests.

Sleep is the main thing parents miss from their pre-child life, more than time for themselves or sex.