Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“on the higher levels of the spiritual path, celibacy is considered a most important aspect of the training.” — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Eventually, if desire withers, monogamy too easily slides downward into celibacy. When this happens, fidelity becomes a weakness rather than a virtue.” — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“There once was a man who was sore 'Cuz his wife wouldn't open the door. Celibacy is just not for me Let… — Jake Wizner Copy Share Image
“If anything, other than our own ‘Real Self’, remains in our memory, it is all vishaya [subjects of pleasures that take one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The one whose every kind of beggary is gone is given all the rules in his hands. But beggary does not go… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“LADY BRACKNELL. [Rising and drawing herself up.] You must be quite aware that what you propose is out of the question. JACK.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That clerical celibacy doesn't guarantee asceticism is obvious, any more than attending Mass guarantees prayerfulness (trust me on that one). But it… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further… — Angelo Scola Copy Share Image
“One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“No prophet or apostle has lived a celibate life is what I'd like to tell her. No one who's ever told me… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share Image
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals,… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Augustine suggests that in the mutual submission and self-surrender of marriage, and in the openness of the marriage relationship to children, with… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy. If it is not spontaneous, it is not celibacy. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Venom didn't answer until they'd crossed teh street, his body moving with liquid grace. Holly couldn't help it; she watched him. There… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“The venerable goal of openness and communication to integrate celibacy had been taken away from us and replaced with threats of witch… — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
“Sexuality is not the poison; fearlessness in sexuality is the poison. Therefore be afraid of sexuality.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If we were the last two people alive on earth, we'd make celibacy the new national pasttime. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sex is for after marriage. They have to respect that this is my choice. If there's no respect, that means they don't… — Adriana Lima Copy Share Image
Maintaining a celibate relationship is hard thats why standards must be set and God has to be centered. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not. — Betty Jane Wylie Copy Share Image
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Not just the celibacy thing but because he has God’s ear, a line on the mysteries. That’s impressive to girls.” — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
I've tried everything but celibacy, and I really want to know what it feels like to be touched by someone with a… — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick Copy Share Image
“Relation with another man or a woman, other than one’s own husband or a wife, is a direct cause for a life… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
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![“LADY BRACKNELL. [Rising and drawing herself up.] You must be quite aware that what you propose is out of the question. JACK. Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to.” quote by Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aed/oscar-wilde-16_lady-bracknell_lady-bracknell-rising-and-drawing-hersel_1006053.jpg)
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