Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

I want to wait to have sex until I'm married. I do. I want to wait, but it's hard. I just want to live my life.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate to a domestic life has been able to occupy a position of honor and usefulness

No red man shall take more than one wife in the future. No red man shall run after women. If he is single, let him take a wife, and lie only with her.

Christian priests refusal to marry is unnatural and destined to lead to fornication.

Men who refrain from sexual acts are frequently stronger, owing to their conservation of energy.

if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

I was by no means a nun.

Celibacy is exhausting.