“Strange how people yearn to become holy only after years of depravity.” She smiled knowingly. “Give me chastity and continence, but not… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Chastity whispered again. It sounded like: "Nice to meet you." Or, possibly: "I hate you all.” — Mia Thompson Copy Share Image
Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a… — Pachomius the Great Copy Share Image
Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“Agape, eros, and chastity, a heady combination that would make even the strongest man fall to his knees” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
“Chastity requires “an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is training in human freedom. The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
“Jerome was a marvelous advocate of chastity: yet hear his confession: “O, how often have I thought myself to be in the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling 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
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
“Ah, for the love of God. Keep it in your pants, Danny, or I swear I’ll find you a chastity belt if… — Hunter Raines Copy Share Image
“To hold the key is not just to possess power, but to carry the weight of responsibility for someone else’s surrender.” — Kemal Onur Güneş 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
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such. — Tertullian 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
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. — George Bernard Shaw 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
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than… — Andre Gide 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
