Chastity Quotes - Page 4

• I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

  George Sand

  Love, Lying, Believe

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• Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

  William Wycherley

  Nurse, Temperance

  William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1871). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :”, p.20

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• Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

  Anais Nin

  Friendship, Keys, Wife

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• Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

  Bonaventure

  Oil, Lamps, Charity

  Saint Bonaventure, Aeterna Press (1881). “The Life of Christ”, p.99, Aeterna Press

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• Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

  Edward Abbey

  Mind, States, Anatomy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Tempted, Boast

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.884, 谷月社

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• Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fun, Men, Yield

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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• Beauty is the flower of chastity.

  Zeno of Elea

  Beauty, Flower

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• Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Virtue

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Humble, Fire

  "Why Do Christians Fast? Three Reasons Explained by St. Thomas Aquinas" by Gretchen Filz, www.catholiccompany.com. March 23, 2017.

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• For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Catholic, Affirmation, Married

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• Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Blessed, Heart, Body

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• After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Always Trying, Soul

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• Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

  Josh Billings

  Integrity, Humor, Liberty

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• People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

  H. L. Mencken

  Cheating, Honesty, Lying

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• In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Husband, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.630, Manonmani Publishers

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• For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

  St. Jerome

  Dignity, Empty, Stomach

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• Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

  Tertullian

  Eye, Paint

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• The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.

  Tertullian

  Soul, Lust, Maidens

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• Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

  Samuel Richardson

  Grace, Uniforms, Piety

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.92

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• 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 or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.

  Heber J. Grant

  Daughter, Son, Saint

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• As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.

  William Shakespeare

  Bud, Chaste

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.72, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

  Andre Gide

  Giving Up, Age, Imagine

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• A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Character, Eye, Bears

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• Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

  Andre Gide

  Sometimes, Vow, Resolution

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