Abstinence Quote by Dietrich von Hildebrand

At the root of all this is purity. Where there is purity there love grows. When purity and love come together, there is bliss.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

— John Henry Newman

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

— Frederick Lenz

All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or…

— Henry David Thoreau

Purity in pain, purity in fear, purity in domination of ones own mind.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

Purity comes from Seva... it comes from selfless love.

— Sathya Sai Baba

“The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one with morality.…

— E M Forster

Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable…

— Henry David Thoreau

Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love.

— Frederick Lenz

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

— Cyril Connolly

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity…

— James Dickey

“Pure sex is masturbation with a real partner who functions as a prop for our indulging in fantasies, while it is only through love…

— Zizek