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celibacy

«It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent ''celibacy,'' by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity ''backward.''»
«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»
«Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.»
«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.»
Author: Pope John Paul II (Pope) | About: Celibacy, Religion | Keywords: celibacy, maturity, priest, vow
«It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin»
«The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy»
«Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Celibacy, Marriage | Keywords: celibacy, pains
«As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | Keywords: celibacy, repent