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Celibacy Quotes

Celibacy,fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...Stupify the understanding and harden the heart, obscure the fancy and sour the temper...A gloomy hair-brained enthusiast, after his death, may have a place in the calendar, but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are as delerious and dismal as himself. David Hume
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Peter De Vries quote: "Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse."
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. Peter De Vries
Joseph Ratzinger quote: "Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as..."
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. Joseph Ratzinger
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
Mark Haddon quote: "He’d tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex."
He’d tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex. Mark Haddon
I've been following the noble profession of hermiting here for nigh on fifty-seven years, practising piety, sobriety, celibacy and the pursuit of true wisdom in the tradition of my father and grandfather and great-grandfather before me. Terry Prachett
Samuel Johnson quote: "Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. Samuel Johnson
Hans Kung quote: "Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating..."
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. Hans Kung
But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, 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 and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the incomparable pretties of Indian Mexico. Jack Kerouac
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere. P. D. James
But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds. Charles Dickens
Francois Mauriac quote: "The sin against nature [is] - compulsory celibacy"
The sin against nature [is] - compulsory celibacy Francois Mauriac
Thomas Love Peacock quote: "Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost..."
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. Thomas Love Peacock
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

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