Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance. — John Vianney Copy Share Image
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. — Henry David Thoreau 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
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing… — Mother Teresa 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
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk,… — Alphonsus Liguori 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
The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore,… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
At the root of all this is purity. Where there is purity there love grows. When purity and love come together, there… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the… — John Vianney 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
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our… — Peter Julian Eymard 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
Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
