Our sexuality is the dimension in us where the
physical earth and the material creation join
in the deepest intimacy with the world of
spirit and with God
Any homelessness from earth; any inability to love
a rose or to rejoice in the physical beauty
of another man or woman;
any failure to thrill at the flaming colors of autumn woods
or the haunting sound of the
night wind keening in the winter trees;
any tendency to see another human being as merely one
nameless object among a million interchangeable objects-
all of these bespeak a homelessness and brokenness,
a lack of full health and human wholeness,
a failure to see and to love as God sees and loves.

One of the great values of the truly and happily
celibate man or woman is to witness to this
reign of the spirit over sexuality-
a reign that onlyenhances and deepens one's humanness
and likeness to God,
that only broadens and widens the scope of one's love.

It is the role of an authentic Christian spirituality
to lead men and women out of homeless sexuality
into a right relationship with their whole God-given natures
and with their bodies and the material creation
over which they are called by God to have dominion in love.
The role of spirituality is to assist in restoring men
and women to their true selves as God has willed them to be;
to entice and encourage and direct them to enter joyfully
into full possession of the humanity God has bestowed upon them;
to help them celebrate, in freedom of the redeemed
sons and daughters of God,
the festival of their competency as truly human beings,
in whom the image and likeness of God
are restored to original harmony.
Author unknown,from Sipe's book