…it is sufficient to indicate that the chase celibate, like everyone else, cannot expect to fathom intellectually or eliminate voluntarily the deep rivers of sexual desire or of the need for affection and intimacy. Only at the end of a long life of struggle can one hope to overcome the self-centered assertiveness which flows In many forms and the depths of the psyche. It is the task of spirituality to help us cope with these vast currents, not to attempt to damn them up. In these depths lie the profound energy systems of human existence, including energy to follow God’s call to holiness. –‘The Courage to be Chaste’ Father Benedict Groeschel

It is when we stand in the righteous all-seeing light of love that we can dare to look at, admit, and consciously suffer under this something in us which wills disaster, misfortune, defeat to everything outside the sphere of our narrowest precondition for the self-knowledge which enables us to follow a straight path, and so be victorious over ourselves, forgiven by ourselves. —Father Benedict J. Groeschel in ‘The Courage to be Chaste’ quoting Dag Hammarskjold from his dairy titled ‘Markings’, the struggles of a young man to live a life of celibacy.