Abstinence Quote by C. S. Lewis

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

— C. S. Lewis

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Even if it does not conform to todays fashion, we can make the decision to remain chaste, to keep ourselves whole for the one…

— Meicee

Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.

— Robert Owen

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but…

— Henry David Thoreau

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even,…

— Andre Gide

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

— Aldous Huxley

If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

— Edna O'Brien

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy…

— C. S. Lewis

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

— Mason Cooley

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

— Ezra Taft Benson