Sentences with phrase «of chastity»

Holloway preferred - a personal vow of chastity for the sake of the Kingdom of God - provides the means, or framework for specifically priestly loving.

An image concerning sexual morality is not just about the moral value of chastity in itself.

Understanding my sexuality is one of the reasons why I'm willing to take a vow of chastity for the rest of my life.

The second wall and the sculpture in the Park's reflecting pool are inspired by an early Netherlandish painting called Allegory of Chastity by Hans Memling, of a female figure protruding from a mountaintop, the rocky formation suggesting an overgrown skirt around her waist.

Bathed in red light, Amy Hixson strutted over where clergymen must once have delivered fiery sermons on the importance of chastity before marriage.

Further, an «ecumenism of the trenches» was already at work among many evangelicals and Catholics in local communities who found themselves standing side by side in opposing abortion on demand and advocating for the traditional values of chastity, family, and community — all derived from deeply held religious convictions.

It is in a life of chastity under vow that this law is made strikingly visible: in its faithful living, we «reverence the holy flesh of Christ,» through which His perfect love was expressed, and work to heal the disorder in the soul and body of Man.

Chastity and fidelity Our young people deserve to be taught the importance of chastity before marriage and fidelity within for the good of their souls and their life in Christ.

In Hephzibah Anderson's memoir about a self - directed year of chastity, she doesn't actually pursue....

The Fathers of the Church, the great writers and commentators on the Faith of the First Millennium, spoke of chastity under vow as «reverencing the flesh of Christ.»

«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.»

For it sets aside the Jewish and Christian ideal of marriage and the meaning of chastity connected with it.

Robert Colquhoun, Campaign Director of 40 Days for Life in the United Kingdom, argues for a reallocation of the Church's resources in favour of chastity education.

Thus this false idea of chastity contributes significantly to the series» «girl porn» effect, despite the lack of actual sex - something that might not be apparent to men, but is all too clear to women.

The law of chastity is a moral code defined by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (LDS Church).

Ojas («vitality»): the subtle energy produced through practice, especially the discipline of chastity (brahmacharya)

There have been some modest heroines and heroes, of course, who have maintained the ideals of chastity even through the sexual revolution, but that is not enough anymore, Shalit argues.

Although our pursuit of chastity — whether in marriage or in single life — begins with difficult self - denial, and often involves ongoing seasons of deep struggle, we shouldn't think of celibacy primarily as a «booby prize»: the consolation given to the losers whose prayers for «healing» (understood solely in terms of orientation change) go unanswered.

Such tales demonstrate the saving action of chastity.

It is society's answer to an «unplanned» pregnancy (married or otherwise) and we must proclaim the gift of chastity and the gift of life all the more strongly because of that.

In the editorial of Faith Sept / Oct 1986, Holiness in the Twenty - first Century Edward Holloway wrote: «Two principles of error in particular mark present derogation from the Church's traditional and apostolic doctrine of chastity in the human person.

In addition to this, there is another interesting insight: the role of chastity as the healing or «remedying in our own mortal flesh of the wound of concupiscence.»

Eden's new edition is certainly a meditation on the beauty of chastity.

The LDS culture nurtures the concept of chastity, before and after marriage, for both males and females.

As such it requires a degree of maturity, both spiritual and psychological, in the individual undertaking it; she must have lived long enough as a virgin in adulthood to be «serene in the practice of chastity by which she is able to fulfil her resolve to remain in the virginal state over a lifetime» (Archbishop Burke op cit para 17).

To call gays, lesbians, the transgendered, hermaphrodites, and whoever else fails to be straightforwardly heterosexual to a standard of chastity that has long since been generally abandoned is ridiculous and callous.

It would also be a blessing if the Synod acknowledged that, in St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body, Catholicism has a remarkable, and pastorally proven, resource for meeting the challenges of chastity, marriage, and family life today.

The doctrine of grace gives us grounds to hope that we may in fact keep the commandments fully if we call upon God for help and co-operate with his assistance by exercising modesty, by keeping custody of the eyes, by avoiding impure conversations and by using all the other means traditionally employed in support of chastity.

Within that perspective he was a tireless expositor of a renewed vision of chastity in loving through a careful distinction between affection and the erotic in the experience of loving.

If the teacher is «co-habiting» with another human being, male or female, same sex or other sex, without benefit of matrimony, how does that affect that person's capacity to teach with integrity on the Church's requirement of chastity and abstinence before marriage?

The notion and practise of chastity exist even today.

The programme is especially strong in its promotion of chastity and self - discipline as essential for the development of true and lasting friendships, clearly delineating lust from love [5].

But bestow upon me, Thy servant, the spirit of chastity, of meekness, of patience, and of love.

Catholic teaching The teaching of the Church has always been consistent on the absolute primacy of chastity education within this delicate arena.

This subject must be presented only in terms of chastity, health and the truth about human sexuality in its relationship to the family as taught by the Church.»

Trained thus in the cultivation of chastity they will be able at a suitable age to enter a marriage of their own after an honourable courtship... Above all, let them (teachers) perform their services as partners of the parents.»

This is part of the chastity natural to incipient adolescent sexuality.