Quotes About Singleness

And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.

Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

Communion is depth. Singleness is height. Communion giveth warmth, singleness giveth us light.42

The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

You reach thirty-five as a single woman, and you're branded either militantly independent or just plain pathetic. But a single thirty-five-year-old man—now, he's the hottest thing going. An eligible bachelor.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

En aquellos días descubrí por qué hay tantas solteronas resolviendo misterios: es lo más entretenido cuando no follas.

They are not faithful. Above all, they have a blemish, a wound, comparable to the bunch of grapes in Stilitano's pants. In short, the greater my guilt in your eyes, the more whole, the more totally assumed, the greater will be my freedom. The more perfect my solitude and singleness.

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

Serena was forty, had never been married, and was lonelier

Serena was forty, had never been married, and was lonelier than she'd ever been in her life.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them , parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.

What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid. No man had ever desired her.

A great many people do believe that to be single is to be somehow incomplete and that they need to find the other half. [...] We believe, on the other hand, that the fundamental sexual unit is one person. Adding more people to that unit may be intimate, fun and companionable, but does not complete anybody.

I spent years being angry with God because He never gave me the husband I wanted. All those years gone, wasted! I should have enjoyed each day as it came and recognized that if I remained single it was because God knew singleness was best for me.

I am terrified of being old and single.

Oh Thou that givest both the beginning and the completion, give Thou victory in the day of need so that what neither a man's burning wish nor his determined resolution may attain to, may be granted unto him in the sorrowing of repentance: to will only one thing.

Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God's grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.

In church she had prayed for contentment. She was thirty, with no husband in sight. A good job, an aging father, a bachelor brother, a few nice friends. At least, she had asked—so humbly, so earnestly, so seriously—let me be content.

When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.

the human condition is a singularity