A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont .” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“We may, indeed, be sure that perfect chastity—like perfect charity—will not be attained by any merely human efforts. You must ask for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth,… — Georg Hermes Copy Share Image
There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
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