Celibacy Quotes

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

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.

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

I never cheated on my wife. I took seriously those vows of celibacy.

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.

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

I expect celibacy of any person that is not married.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

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 a vow of political celibacy.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Celibacy is exhausting.

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.

Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent.

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.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

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.

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.

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.