Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage." If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again! — Molly Kelly Copy Share Image
Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the… — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. — Aristippus Copy Share Image
And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not… — Eugene Rivers Copy Share Image
Mourning your abstinence from junk food is like mourning the loss of an enemy who would happily see you die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.” — Joseph Livesey Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately. — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
