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
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.
— Pope Francis
... 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