Wow, this is a powerful article about the beauty of a celibate life committed to God.
Some quotes from the article:
“It’s hard to see how Scripture could be any more positive about the celibate life.”
“Love isn’t just communicated by the sex one has had, but also by the sex one hasn’t had.”
“To deny someone sex is not to condemn him or her to a life empty of intimacy and full of loneliness. Loneliness will never be entirely absent (it isn’t absent in the most successful marriages and nuclear families), but intimacy can be present in close friendships and your church family.”
“Lying in bed at night next to someone you once promised to love and knowing there is no way to bridge the gulf between you. . . . That is the most crushing loneliness of all.”
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