Moral superiority Quote by Uta Ranke-Heinemann

Mary's virginity protected a great deal more than her own moral character, reputation, and the legitimacy of Jesus' birth. It protected the nature of…

— John Macarthur

“In accordance with this design, Mary the Virgin is found obedient, saying, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to…

— The Church Fathers

“A virgin is defined as someone pure, innocent. It is also described as “not yet explored or exploited by man.”

— Alessandra Torre

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

— Saint Augustine

“Since the orthodox Christian church continued to slip farther and farther toward the belief that sex was evil, the doctrine of the “Ever-Virginity” of…

— Joseph B. Lumpkin

Mary was a virgin and he Bible says that she 'found favor' - that means there must have been others in the race. What…

— Tommy Tenney

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

— Jessica Valenti

The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view…

— Pope Pius IX

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

— Voltaire

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

— Elisabeth Elliot

“For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as…

— Jessica Valenti