God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
“If there is a greatest destroyer of the Self (the Soul), it is sexuality.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One begins to be free of the disease (of the sex), from the moment he or she opposes sex.” — Dada Bhagwan 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
Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Celibacy is a terrible idea, adhered to by people who hate themselves and want everyone else to do the same. You should… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“Sheel (the highest state of conduct in worldly interaction) is where not even an iota of a wrong intent arises within.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Ego does not experience happiness or misery. It does not enjoy sex either. It is just the egoism it does that, ‘I… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There are three kinds of ‘alcohols’ [intoxications]. 1. (Intoxication due to) sexual desires. 2. Drinking alcohol, 3. The alcohol of egoistical intoxication;… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There is sheel (the highest state of conduct in worldly interaction) when not a single living being is ever hurt even to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to… — Edwina Findley Copy Share Image
“I've been following the noble profession of hermiting here for nigh on fifty-seven years, practising piety, sobriety, celibacy and the pursuit of… — terry pratchett Copy Share Image
“as Barbara Tuchman, author of Distant Mirror, put it, “clerical celibacy was a joke.” Despite the previous ban on clerical marriages, nuns,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our… — Pope Paul VI 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
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
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
People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“Karma alone does not take care of everything. One had made a desire of enjoying sex. He does that one karma. So… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“Sweetheart, what gives you the idea that you're worth a half-year of celibacy?" "I may not be; you're the only one who… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit. — Ross Douthat 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
“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
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
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