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Celibacy is exhausting.
I took a vow of political celibacy.
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
I expect celibacy of any person that is not married.
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.
Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent.
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit.
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.