Quotes About Celibacy

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.

Nonviolence; Truth; Non-Stealing; Celibacy; Non-Possession; Body Labour; Control of the Palate; Fear-lessness; Equal Respect for all Religions; Swadeshi (use of home manufactures); Freedom from Untouchability. These eleven should be observed as vows in a spirit of humility.

When one is confirmed in celibacy, spiritual vigor is gained.

Ah, yes Langdon said with a knowing smile. Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex? Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second.

Who better than a bunch of celibate male octogenarians to tell the world how to have sex? - Robert Langdon

Ah, yes," Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate male octogenarians to tell the world how to have sex?

Who better than a bunch of celibate male octogenarians to tell the world how to have sex?

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

Ideally the megamachine's personnel should consist of celibates, detached from family responsibilities, communal institutions, and ordinary human affections: such day-to-day celibacy as we actually find in armies, monasteries, and prisons. For the other name for the division of labor, when it reaches the point of solitary confinement at a single task for a whole lifetime, is the dismemberment of man.

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.

I've never been with women, because I'm celibate, as ordered by God, as if I were in a monastery. For me, the church is my wife.

Decisive too was the increasing acceptance of another key demand of the reformers: that the clergy distinguish themselves from the great mass of the Christian people—the laicus, or 'laity'—by embracing celibacy. By 1148, when yet another papal decree banning priests from having wives or concubines was promulgated, the response of many was to roll their eyes. 'Futile and ludicrous—for who does not know already that it is unlawful?

And as Miss Austen wrote, 'It is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable, old maid! The proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

You know, I'm not even sure how we ended up living together. I am, Jake said, turning back to the lake. Sex. It's a powerful force, my boy, and women use it. Is that why you gave them up? Will asked, sympathetically. Did paranoia drive you to celibacy?

In 1076 he decreed that none of the English clergy would be allowed to marry.

The duke of Norfolk remarked to his chaplain, 'You see, we have hindered priests from having wives.' 'And can your grace', the chaplain replied, 'prevent also men's wives from having priests?

Increase the number of honest women and diminish the number of celibates, as much as you choose, you will always find that the result will be a larger number of gallant adventurers than of honest women.

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

Sweetheart, what gives you the idea that you're worth a half-year of celibacy?" "I may not be; you're the only one who can answer that.

Celibacy sucks, no pun intended.

When additional emphasis is placed upon these officiants being celibate and male (to avoid the pollution of menstruation), then the importance of ritual purity for many Christians, though they may have become unaware of it through familiarity, becomes obvious. Perhaps no more need be said, but the Christian view of the Blessed Virgin Mary might be a fruitful area for further exploration.

When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.

Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality.

It is for this reason that the candidate assumes the vows of celibacy, for the close connection existing in the advanced disciple between the brain and the reproductive system necessitates an absolute conservation of all life energies.