Chaste Quote by G. E. M. Anscombe

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

— Dana Gould

“Newer religions, among them Christianity, saw the world as a battlefield between good and evil. In such a world, sex itself became dichotomized and…

— Byrne R.S. Fone

“To put it plainly, women enjoyed higher status and more autonomy among Christians than among pagans, and could expect better treatment from their husbands.…

— Vincent Carroll

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

— Tim Kaine

All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

— David Bowie

Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel what was…

— Hippolytus of Rome

... since birth control roots in a species of selfishness, the spiritual life of the user of contraceptives is also weakened. Women seem to…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if…

— Alan Wilson Watts

We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.

— Eddie Long

Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a…

— Rick Santorum

Christianity has always looked on sex as in some way indecent and sinful; and for that reason Christians cannot possibly associate a truly religious…

— Lewis Browne

We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art.…

— Peter Greenaway