Quotes about Celibacy
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
- St. Augustine
To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes.
- Eric Metaxas
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
- Carl Sagan
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
it's the paternal instinct, Amory—celibacy goes deeper than the flesh. . . .
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Therefore, we are today far from wrong in applying this prophecy to the papists, who urge celibacy and abstinence from foods more forcefully than any precept of God.
- John Calvin
... 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
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.
- Pope John Paul II