Quotes about Abstinence
We should be living a life of purity.
- Jeremy Camp
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- St. Augustine
And the faces of them, which have used abstinence, shall shine above the stars; whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness.Bible2 Esdras,vii. 55.
- Samuel Johnson
Therefore, we are today far from wrong in applying this prophecy to the papists, who urge celibacy and abstinence from foods more forcefully than any precept of God.
- John Calvin
I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.
- Oprah Winfrey
I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke and if I go out to a movie I like to watch things that are moral.
- Judith Durham
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
- William Temple
We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.
- Gordon Hinckley
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
- William Temple
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
- Denzel Washington
Everyone knows me and my wife's story. We didn't have sex until we got married.
- Shaun Alexander
The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
- Akiva ben Joseph