Celibacy quotes

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◆ I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

- Penelope Cruz100

◆ Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

- Peter De Vries99

◆ As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

- Socrates99

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

- Joseph Ratzinger99

◆ 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 Radcliffe99

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

- William P Leahy99

◆ Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

- Thomas Love Peacock99

◆ Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites

- Jeremy Taylor99

◆ Honestly, celibacy isn't hard. It's the gasers that sell you broken promises and try to get you off of God's plan offering nothing.

- 99

◆ Celibacy & dry spells are definitely not the same thing.

- 99

◆ The Notebook extended my celibacy. No man was worth the box if he didn't embody the character of Noah.

- 99

◆ Maintaining a celibate relationship is hard thats why standards must be set and God has to be centered.

- 99

◆ 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 II99

◆ Im single right now and Ive chosen to be single because I dont have the time to get to know anybody. So its okay not to have sex, its okay to get to know people. Im celibate. Celibacys fine.

- Lady Gaga99