Catholic Quote by Josemaria Escriva

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged…

— Josemaria Escriva

There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a…

— Josemaria Escriva

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

— Saint Augustine

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

— John of the Cross

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

— Pope John Paul II

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

— John Henry Newman

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks…

— St. Jerome

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never…

— Saint Augustine

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

— Saint Augustine

Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace…

— John Milton

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

— John Vianney

That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your…

— Josemaria Escriva