If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them. — Kathryn Hulme Copy Share Image
Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It is preferable to have a virgin mind than a virgin body. Each is good if each be possible; if it be… — St. Ambrose Copy Share Image
God is called jealous, angered, repentant, merciful, and foreknowing. These simply mean that, because He guards the chastity of every soul, He… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms,… — William Law Copy Share Image
Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark 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
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies;… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For… — Philip Neri 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
“There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“Do you have everything you need?" No. She needed blinders to keep from staring at him, and a box of tissue to… — Roxanne St. Claire Copy Share Image
“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Do you have to do murder? Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which… — George Sand 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel;… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All along the street, keys rattle in key-holes as each shop's ornate metal clothing is stripped away...It's as if, having unlocked the… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
