Celibacy Quote by Robert Rainy

“Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an act of…

— Murray Pura

The notion that marriage is an impediment to commitments to the larger community is a long-standing one - and one reason early Christians did…

— Stephanie Coontz

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if…

— Muriel Spark

“During the tenth and eleventh centuries the rule of the Church prohibiting the clergy from marrying appears to have been widely and publicly neglected…

— James Harvey Robinson

“the age in which the Romish Church had made marriage a legalized tyranny, and the laity, by a natural and pardonable revulsion, had exalted…

— Charles Kingsley

Marriage equality changed life for people.

— Andrew Cuomo

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more…

— Edna Ferber

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

— Anonymous

The punishment of vertical rending was given to those who had destroyed marriages to satisfy their own lust.

— Cindy Pon

“So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Unlike the Old Testament, in which singleness was not a good, the New Testament—or, more properly, the coming of Christ—opens up, for the first…

— Preston Sprinkle

“The benefits of a philosophy of neo-religious pessimism are nowhere more apparent than in relation to marriage, one of modern society’s most grief-stricken arrangements,…

— Alain de Botton