Celibacy Quotes
Celibacy Quote of the day
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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.
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
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.
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
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.
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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.
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.
Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality.
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.
Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.
Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.
Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place.
There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.
It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.