It
is with our passions, as it is with fire and water. They are good
servants but bad masters.
--SIR ROGER L’ESTRANGE (1616–1704)
Man
is fire, woman tow; along comes the devil and blows!
--SPANISH PROVERB
Celibacy:
Single blessedness.
--WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616)
I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how
much they know about sex and how little about soap.
--BILLIE BURKE
In this department of life, as in every other, thrills come at the
beginning and do not last. . . . Let the thrill go—let it
die away—go on through that period of death into the quieter
interest and happiness that follow—and you will find you are
living in a world of new thrills.
--C. S. LEWIS (1898–1963)
Most of the so-called sexual incompatibility in marriage springs
from the delusion that sex is an activity when it is primarily a
relationship; if the relationship is faulty, the activity cannot
long be self-sustaining or truly satisfactory.
--SYDNEY J. HARRIS (1917–1986)
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.
He will go any length for it—risk fortune, character, reputation,
life itself. And what do you think he has done? In a thousand years
you would never guess—he has left it out of his heaven! Prayer
takes its place.
--MARK TWAIN (1835–1910)
Sex
is the ersatz or substitute religion of the twentieth century.
--MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE (1903–1990)
Sex,
like all else between human beings, is never perfect.
--THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN
The
orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and the image
of fulfillment.
--MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE (1903–1990)
The
passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous
only in one, through their excess.
--CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE (1820–1904)
There
is a tendency to think of sex as something degrading; it is not,
it is magnificent, an enormous privilege, but because of that the
rules are tremendously strict and severe.
--FRANCIS DEVAS
What
then is the place and purpose of sex? God intends, as the story
of Eve’s creation from Adam shows, that the “one flesh”
experience should be an expression and a heightening of the partner’s
sense that, being given to each other, they now belong together,
each needing the other for completion and wholeness.
ON SEX
Sex is a very holy subject.
--GEDDES MACGREGOR
There
is little praise for the consistently sexually controlled single.
Too often, it is mixed with granulated pity or powdered condescension.
Ironically, while discipline and self-control are encouraged and
admired in scholarship, athletics, music, and ministry, their absence
is strangely excused in sexual matters. The secular myth has infiltrated
the Christian consciousness; our sexual urges are overpowering and
irresistible. . . . Chastity is a requisite of Christian singleness.
Furthermore, chastity is possible. There will always be somebody
to suggest that such thinking is legalistic, unreasonable, and unlikely
to succeed. My reply can only be: “When it’s bigger
than I am, so is God.”
--ROSALIE DE ROSSET
There
is no getting away from it: the old Christian rule is “Either
marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total
abstinence.” Chastity is the most unpopular of our Christian
virtues.
--C. S. LEWIS
Children are born from their relationship, but this is secondary:
what is basic is the enriching of their relationship itself through
their repeated “knowing” of each other as persons who
belong to each other exclusively and without reserve.
--J. I. PACKER
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