Top 202 Chastity Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.
Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.
There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.
[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.
Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.
Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a king (cf. Gen. 41).
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.
This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.
When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.
Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar love, full of chastity and purity.
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lacky her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
Chastity prays for me, piety sings,
Innocence sweetens my last black breath,
Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,
And all the deadly virtues plague my death!
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
