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For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation…
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The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a…
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Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect…
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A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and…
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And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed…
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The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or…
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Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy…
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The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been…
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a…
— Sam Manekshaw
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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their…
— William Cobbett
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to…
— Adolf Hitler
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
— Isaac Newton
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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
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What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone,…
— Rajneesh
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