Sentences with phrase «to abstain from something»
The key to making these cravings disappear is to completely abstain from them for about two weeks.
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Pastors and mentors will of course feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the questions about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.
I imagine abstaining from something is pretty common in religious practice.
Abstaining from something results in discomfort.
There is a lot of debate right now about whether the percentage of our diet which is carbs is healthy and there is a separate debate about whether wheat is healthy and what portion of the population can benefit from abstaining from it.
Once this list was locked down, the entire staff voted on their choices for each category, abstaining from those they felt unable to properly decide.
Social media is now ingrained into the fabric of our lives, and it is no longer feasible to completely abstain from it.
One senses here an underlying presumption that marital intercourse is something so «anti-spiritual» that spouses would do better and grow more in love for God by abstaining from it than by engaging in it.
The aim of the author was to establish the doctrine that marriage is sinful and Christians ought to abstain from it, and therefore the book was of Gnostic origin.
We choose to engage in those sins or we choose to abstain from them.
If your church, or your own beliefs, prevent you from doing something, such as gay marriage, or drinking alcohol on Sunday, why don't YOU abstain from it, and let others live freely?
This looks great:) I am looking though for a substitute for the egg whites, as I abstain from them.
If something is in your interest, but lies beyond your capabilities, you must abstain from it.
When we abstain from something that we enjoy, it can cause discontent in our lives.