Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Celibacy is exhausting.

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

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

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 have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

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.

In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.

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

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

I would distinguish, and the Church distinguishes, between orientation and action. We have many priests who have lived their lives in keeping with the absolute value of celibacy.

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.

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

My main goal is to wait until I'm married to have sex. I would never, personally, be able to (have an abortion), because down the road it would always haunt me.

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.