Chastity Quote by Saint Augustine Download Open image “Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.” — Saint Augustine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chastity Give me
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 Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
