Quotes about Chastity
I so loved the nobility of your character, your wisdom, your chastity, your spirit, and indeed every aspect of your life that many people have said to me: What are you doing?
- Hildegard of Bingen
Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.
- Jerry Falwell
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
- St. Jerome
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
- St. Jerome
So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal
- John Milton
Joy is as an angel so beautiful and delicate and chaste that she can only dwell with holiness. She cannot remain with selfishness; she is wedded to Love.
- James Allen
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
- John Tillotson
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
- Virginia Woolf
Chastity may be a fetish invented by certain societies for unknown reasons.
- Virginia Woolf
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
- St. Augustine
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
- Ezra Taft Benson