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Celibacy is exhausting.
Beatrice Wood / Artist
Celibacy
Exhausting
Sexuality
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I took a vow of political celibacy.
Mitch Daniels / Former Governor Of Indiana
Celibacy
Political
Vow
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / Author
Celibacy
Deeper
Flesh
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Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
Peter De Vries / Editor
Abuse
Celibacy
Form
Self
Worst
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I expect celibacy of any person that is not married.
Dallin H. Oaks / Author
Celibacy
Married
Persons
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Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
Mason Cooley /
Asceticism
Celibacy
Incapacity
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To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.
Robert Green Ingersoll / Lawyer
Celibacy
Language
Obscene
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
Isaac Newton / Physicist
Accomplishment
Aggravation
Celibacy
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The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
William P. Leahy / Priest
Celibacy
Church
May
Regard
Clerical
Holds
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The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
Celibacy
Philosopher
States
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Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.
Mallory Ortberg /
Celibacy
People
Who We Are
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Thomas Love Peacock / Novelist
Marriage
Celibacy
Horse
Muddy
Stormy
Almost
Often
Lake
Pond
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent
Socrates / Philosopher
Marriage
Wedding
Men
Celibacy
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates / Philosopher
Marriage
Celibacy
Repent
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Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
Mahatma Gandhi / Civil Rights Leader
God
Celibacy
Helping
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There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.
Betty Jane Wylie / Writer
Celibacy
Lines
Promiscuity
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Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.
Michel De Montaigne / Writer
Celibacy
Married
Might
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God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
Martin Luther / Monk
Celibacy
Creation
Perfection
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It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent.
Lady Gaga / Recording Artist
Celibacy
Sex
Strong
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Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
Richard Whately / Economist
Advantage
Celibacy
Spiritual
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Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit.
Ross Douthat / Author
Celibacy
Conservatism
Offend
Equally
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
Pope Benedict Xvi /
Accepted
Accord
Celibacy
Compulsion
Doe
Matter
Priest
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Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.
Lisa Kleypas / Author
Believe
Celibacy
Good God
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Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
Timothy Radcliffe / Priest
Beauty
Admiring
Celibacy
Humanity
Sex
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I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
Roger Lewis / Biographer
Artist
Celibacy
Thinking
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I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.
John Steinbeck / Author
Celibacy
Cleanliness
Sitting Still
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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
Jeremy Taylor / Author
Apples
Celibacy
Confined
Dies
Heart
Perpetual
Singularity
Sweetness
Apple
Celibate
Dwells
Fly
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For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state.
Meir Soloveichik /
Blessed
Celibacy
Clergy
Remains
Absolute
Catholics
Demanded
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I've tried everything but celibacy, and I really want to know what it feels like to be touched by someone with a mental touch and not a physical touch.
Lisaraye Mccoy-Misick / Film Actress
Celibacy
Touched
Mental
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In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you are boiling within.
Rajneesh / Guru
Celibacy
Names
Sex
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If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.
Pope Francis /
Catholicism
Celibacy
Issues
Thinking
Western
Cultural
Option
Review
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I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
Mahatma Gandhi / Civil Rights Leader
Celibacy
Vow
Objection
Thoughts
Shared
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
Pope John Paul Ii / Priest
Celibacy
Christ
Church
Dignity
Duty
Expression
Maturity
Proof
Servant Of God
Vow
Inner
Word
Personal
Priest
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I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Music
Celibacy
Decided
Heard
Meditation
Try
Back
Help
Tried
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When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy.
Jessica White / Model
Amount
Celibacy
Decided
Greater
Vow
Love God Me
Loves
How Much
Match
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I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine.
Lady Gaga / Recording Artist
Celibacy
People
Sex
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That clerical celibacy doesn't guarantee asceticism is obvious, any more than attending Mass guarantees prayerfulness (trust me on that one). But it preserves the call even when the system is corrupted.
Ross Douthat / Author
Attending
Celibacy
Guarantees
Mass
Obvious
Preserves
Trust Me
Clerical
Corrupted
Guarantee
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The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.
Gene Robinson / Canon
Celibacy
Imposed
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You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, the shedding of blood was for a man to perform. It was not for the woman, who gave life.
Vincent Nichols /
Blood
Celibacy
Notion
Old Testament
Sacrifice
Testament
Life Sacrifice Man
Life Man Woman
Levi
Shedding
Tribe
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Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.
Pope Francis /
Celibacy
Favors
Maintaining
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For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Robert Rainy /
Careful
Celibacy
Christian
Christian Life
Fasting
Great Value
Higher
Manners
Separation
Life Great World
Marriages
Standard
Prohibited
Required
Strained
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It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.
Mary Doria Russell / Novelist
Celibacy
Found
Sex
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
Edmund White / Novelist
Bisexuality
Celibacy
Narrow-minded
Neglected
Approve
Assume
The One Thing
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