'Celibacy can leave us with a lot of time to sit alone with our thoughts and God, should we be so daring. It can provide a perspective that invites me to contemplate meaning and eternity and what is really true and lasting. It can also be a doorway into a godly hopelessness, because there is no locus of hope in this life. Celibacy has removed all the temporal hopes. No date. No special someone. No engagement or marriage or first child or grandkids. "What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14).'
Greg Johnson, Still Time to Care, p.239.
