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This devotion is the reason that the traditions of southern India represent him as celibate (see the anecdote Devotion to his mother).

This was a time when permanent fellows of a Cambridge college had to be unmarried, celibate and take holy orders.

"If I weren't so fat, I'd have made you a good wife, " she teasingly told Patriarch Bartholomew who, as an Orthodox bishop, is celibate.

He portrayed himself as a celibate, a pose calculated to epitomize his moral fiber, but he had at least two wives or perhaps concubines.

After meeting the boys in person, I began to wonder if perhaps I should adjust my rule somewhat about remaining celibate this year.

In the beginning of early Christianity, see, you did not have the celibate ministr.

If their wife dies after they become a priest, they're expected to stay celibate and single for the rest of their lives also.

If you are celibate, you are making the effort not to do something that you really want to do. I don't want to do it in the first place!

Oppressor lets Huo Jia sit beside oneself, say gently to his ear: "Is you married still celibate? "

He would discourage in both the householders and the celibate youths any lukewarmness in their spiritual struggles.

Those elderly celibate females in the city are mostly the so-called 'talented ladies' which refers to the highly-educated ones.

I'm not exercising self-restraint and it's not the same as choosing to be celibate.

Numb the pain is too much, I do not know the future will be like Momo's songs, stubborn guard celibate?

Churches that believe their priests must be celibate in order to be like Jesus are not about to change their rules, though.

For Kandis, there's no doubt she is an addict. She's been celibate for eight weeks, and hasn't masturbated.

One was a droll, sarcastic satirist; the other was a celibate mad scientist.

Controlling lust by remaining celibate when single, leading to faithfulness in marriage.

There are plenty of eukaryotes that multiply by cloning rather than sex, but almost all turned celibate only very recently.

The laity, however, everywhere preferred their priests celibate.

So for celibate rotifers that want to stay clean, a good long dry spell is just what the doctor ordered.

Many cerebral narcissists are celibate even when married.

The God remained celibate throughout his life, and valued self-control, renunciation and resistance to sensuality among his worshippers .

Elderly married people still having sex were happier in life and marriage than their celibate compatriots.

But why, then, did the apostle Paul, himself celibate, not mention Jesus and Mary when he argued that apostles could marry (1 Cor. 9: 5)?

The Pope bluntly told the world's priests yesterday to stay celibate.

Now, the life of a monk is a celibate life, correct?

Even C. fluminea and their seemingly celibate cousins have sex on the odd occasion.

The celibate ministry comes about later.

The Catholic Church is perpetually short of priests, not least because it limits its recruitment to well-educated celibate males.

I'm quite celibate now; I don't really get time to meet anyone.

And one of the reasons is that among the creed of Shaker-dom is that one should be celibate.

There are probably a couple of million celibate people in Britain, but there were no dating sites for people who wanted love but not sex.

You have to remain celibate and, as we will see in the coming week, this is important to Milton.

whence it comes, no doubt, that he was a celibate all his life

Measurement and related factor analysis of areolar diameter in young celibate women