Chaste Quotes
89 quotes by 69 authors
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But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example…
— Athenagoras of Athens
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Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?
— Propertius
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The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all. This purity is attained through…
— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is intimacy with God;…
— Pope John Paul II
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Keep your heart with a chaste mind
— Catherine of Aragon
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Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian…
— Benito Mussolini
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That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct…
— Steven Pressfield
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Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
— William Shakespeare
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There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn --…
— Odell Shepard
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To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right…
— Joe Darion
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Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not…
— Plutarch
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Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately.…
— Stephen I of Hungary
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
— Pope John Paul II
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
— Alexander Pope
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It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste…
— William Prynne
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Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking,…
— Robert Grosseteste
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The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.
— James Huneker
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I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.
— Max Ehrmann
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In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not…
— Swami Vivekananda
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