Sentences with phrase «of chaste»

The phrase «of chaste life» appears in a bill passed on June 25, 1886: Whoever induces any person under the age of eighteen years of chaste life and conversation to have unlawful sexual intercourse shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, common jail, or house of correction not exceeding three years or by fine not exceeding one thousand...

It's worth mentioning that while there was no confusion over the sexuality of Benedict Cumberbatch's Alan Turing, The Imitation Game was widely criticised for playing down his homosexuality, instead romanticising his friendship with Kiera Knightley's Joan Clarke to the point that it took the form of a chaste relationship.

«If blood flows from the womb, let the woman drink dark wine in which the leaves of the chaste tree have been steeped.»

Great suggestions, and of course, we're big fans of chaste berry, and what it does for progesterone levels (which benefits estrogen levels, and by extension the rest of your hormonal system).

Use of the chaste tree berry for medicinal purposes dates back over two thousand years.

Chasteberry, the dried fruit of the chaste tree, is native to the Mediterranean.

He ignored warnings and even thought of a chaste marriage (though chastity was not particularly high in his thought at that point).

Thus the instruction is not so much concerned with what might be called personality types but with people who act or are likely to act in ways clearly incompatible with living a life of chaste celibacy.

The religious origins (preserved in the legend of a chaste Irish princess who was beheaded on this location by her demented father) are by no means fortuitous to the nature of the arrangement.

Thankfully, there still are alive human beings of this time, men and women full of integrity and character, who practise and promote the value of a chaste lifestyle.

At the end of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study of asceticism and the regimen of ascetical discipline; assessment should be of the candidate's capacity to live a life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples of ascetical discipline.

Apparently under pressure from OutRage, David Hope, Anglican Bishop of London, has publicly declared his «ambiguous sexuality,» while averring that he has lived a life of chaste celibacy.

At the same time, and as the NRB rightly notes, there are undoubtedly in the priesthood many men afflicted by same - sex attractions who are nonetheless good and faithful priests living lives of chaste celibacy.

Such matters might best be handled by someone who can speak from personal experience of a chaste homosexual life e.g. as one might hope, a priest.

An unnatural look of chaste perfection?

Not exact matches

So, whatever the reason, there are gay people that will always be gay and the vast majority of whom are not going to be chaste and are not going to be able to successfully or happily sustain a heterosexual relationship.

Mormons believe «in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul — We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things.

Men, women, and children, young and old have sought and found the grace of God in order to live chaste and humble lives.

Equality of Men and Women [33:35] The submitting men, the submitting women, the believing men, the believing women, the obedient men, the obedient women, the truthful men, the truthful women, the steadfast men, the steadfast women, the reverent men, the reverent women, the charitable men, the charitable women, the fasting men, the fasting women, the chaste men, the chaste women, and the men who commemorate GOD frequently, and the commemorating women; GOD has prepared for them forgiveness and a great recompense.

St Augustine had much to say on this matter in De sancta virginitate where he insists that chaste virginity is the closest imitation of Christ open to us in this life.

One of the LDS Articles of Faith is, in part: «We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent... if there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.»

At the same time an effective support network for those who wish to live a chaste life in spite of homosexual temptations is necessary lest faithful people are left alienated and feeling separated from the Church.

«the classical psychology of virtue, shame in doing what is wrong and a delight in doing what is right, it insists that hope is at the centre of the arduous task of chastity - and that chaste celibacy is a singular manifestation of hope for others.»

Chastity, on the other hand, isn't about the state of your body, but the state of your soul; it's not just about whether or not you've had sex (although part of being chaste is having sex only in the context of marriage), it's about self - control, respecting your body, and enduring your trials with patience.

Of course it is the case that there are many priests, whose orientation is homosexual rather than heterosexual, who live chaste and holy lives.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

Consecrated virginity can not, of course, be simply an exterior discipline: without a chaste mind and heart, the life of the virgin would not be truly chaste.

Indeed, fear of the body's infirmities has taught the voluptuary to observe moderation in debauchery (for the fear was to take the medicine in the wrong way) but it has never made him chaste.

In fact, Philip and Dunstan continued to live together, in a chaste, platonic relationship, following the guidance of their pastor.

Gonnerman, for his part, seems to assume that these categories of the human person are foregone conclusions in several of his writings, as well as in his recent discussion of reparative therapy, in which he calls himself «a chaste man who is also gay.»

One of the catechesis's virtues is the way it treats not only sex but also celibacy as open to this giving — and not just the celibacy of professed religious but the far more common celibacy of those who are unmarried but seeking to live chaste lives.

The grandeurs of life are like the flowers in color and in fate; the beauty of these remains so long as their chaste buds gather and store the rich pearls of the dawn and, saving it, drop it in liquid dew; but scarcely has the Cause of All directed upon them the full rays of the sun, when their beauty and glory fail, and the brilliant gay colors which decked forth their pride wither and fade.

With regard to the lives of Christians, the Doctrine of Addai says that they were chaste, circumspect, holy and pure, since they lived like anchorites and chastity without spot.

While Madison's use of the Christian tradition employs a restricted, even chaste use of theological language» the name Jesus Christ is never mentioned, only «divine Author of our religion»» there can be no doubt that his worldview is Christian.

But using two proof texts, Genesis 3:16 («To the woman he said, «I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing...»») and Titus 2:4 - 5 («and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands»), he nevertheless concludes: «Wife, mother, homemaker - this is the appointed destiny of real womanhood.

Taking its foundation instead from the classical psychology of virtue, shame in doing what is wrong and a delight in doing what is right, it insists that hope is at the centre of the arduous task of chastity — and that chaste celibacy is a singular manifestation of hope for others.

You have to come out of the unscriptural marriage and stay single and chaste to prove your repentance if your former spouse won't take you back!

A glass of white wine that tastes like pears is balanced between your fingers, there are chaste lilacs in the air.

... 3that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; 4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5to be sober — minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:...

We may end our article where we began it, by quoting from the Novena of Cardinal Newman: Philip, my holy Patron, who wast so careful for the souls of thy brethren, and especially of thy own people, when on earth, slack not thy care of them now, when thou art in heaven... Be to us a good father; make our priests blameless and beyond reproach or scandal; make our children obedient, our youth prudent and chaste, our heads of families wise and gentle, our old people cheerful and fervent, and build us up, by thy powerful intercession, in faith, hope, charity and all virtues».

Of course there are chaste homosexuals in the Church who do live chaste lives and they need our respect and support.

This is not to say that everyone in those groups is engaged in illicit behavior: many of them lead chaste lives.

We continue to invite all qualified young men of either orientation who desire to lead a celibate chaste religious life to consider joining us on our mission.

Apparently there were also sexual infidelities: the chaste suitor willing to enter a monastic marriage of brother and sister — one of Sherry's revelations — could not sustain the daily reality of the marriage bed.

Spouses too, if they are not chaste in mutual relations, reduce each other to the level of an object to be enjoyed and not of a spouse to be revered within the plans of God.

And yet the call remains the same: to be holy and chaste before God, however often, much or little we may fall into sinful patterns of behaviour.

And so Courage was born, a spiritual and fraternal support group of Catholic lay men and women who aspire to live chaste lives in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church.

It also teaches that chaste mutual respect is a condition of harmony and happiness in marriage.

Joy itself is evangelical, and people are more easily shocked by a happy, chaste Christian than they are by hearing about statistical studies of homosexuality or even philosophical arguments, such as sexual acts having intrinsic meaning and being open to new life.

What more perfect environment could there have been for that perfect humanity to have grown and developed in than the gentle but ardent love of Mary, supported by the chaste loving and care of Joseph?