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 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.
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.
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
Celibacy is exhausting.
I expect celibacy of any person that is not married.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.
No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused! From now on, we fight will for every man out there who isn't getting laid when he should be! This is our day! This is our time! And, by God, we're not gonna let history condemn us to celibacy! We will make a stand! We will succeed! We will get laid!
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent
For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused - After all, we have monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, celibacy, and so on. In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.
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'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.
The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.
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.
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.
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.
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
