Top 100 Law Of Chastity Quotes
#1. Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
David A. Bednar
#2. I adhere to the law of chastity because I don't believe in pushing women. That's what it means to be a man. I don't hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don't indulge in either. We don't need to.
Courtney Milan
#3. The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
Joseph Joubert
#7. Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.
Mason Cooley
#8. Keeping that man out of trouble was like trying to return a whore to chastity.
Lydia Dare
#10. Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#11. Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
Stephen King
#12. The beauty and music ... It is a call ... And some are not strong.
Richard Llewellyn
#13. 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
#14. Monsignor ... you are asking whether I promise God chastity, poverty, and obedience. I heard what you said and my answer is no
Denis Diderot
#15. Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov
#16. Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.
Tertullian
#17. Do you have to do murder?
Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects
a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.
Leslie Ford
#18. Bianca: There's a difference between like and love. I like my Sketchers. But I love my Prada backpack.
Chastity: But I love my Sketchers.
Bianca: That's because you don't have a Prada backpack.
David Levithan
#20. Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?
Thomas Hardy
#21. Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind.
Thornton Wilder
#22. A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity? BUMPER STICKER
Darynda Jones
#23. I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
Lord Byron
#24. the greater the gender equity of a country, the smaller the gender gap in the importance of the financial resources of a partner (as well as in the importance of other preferences, like chastity and good looks).36
Cordelia Fine
#25. Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.
Paul Gigot
#26. Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.
Nirmala Srivastava
#28. When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
Tacitus
#29. Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.
C.S. Lewis
#30. Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
Safak Pavey
#31. She refuses to be hit with Cupid's arrow. Shielded by the armor of chastity, she can't be charmed by words of love. She won't be assaulted by loving eyes, and she won't accept gifts of gold.
William Shakespeare
#32. Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'
Saint Augustine
#33. The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
Isaac Newton
#35. It is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.
Maureen Dowd
#36. Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
Josh Billings
#37. For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
St. Jerome
#38. My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.
William Shakespeare
#39. The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
Ezra Taft Benson
#40. It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
John Milton
#41. The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
John Tillotson
#42. Wrong," he growls in a voice I've never heard. "Very, very wrong, Chastity. If we were together and didn't work, I'd be out you. You're the one I can't lose
Kristan Higgins
#43. Chastity - you can carry it too far.
Mark Twain
#44. Chastity prays for me, piety sings,
Innocence sweetens my last black breath,
Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,
And all the deadly virtues plague my death!
Dylan Thomas
#45. There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.
Philip Sidney
#47. In order to have a spiritual life, you need not enter a seminary, or fast, or abstain, or take a vow of chastity. All you have to do is have faith and accept God. From then on, each of us becomes a part of His path. We become vehicles for His miracles.
Paulo Coelho
#48. Third, as the ladies have clearly mastered the female art of chastity, our masculine inability to control our urges rather weakens our claims to be the stronger sex.
Courtney Milan
#49. The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
Francis Bacon
#50. Agape, eros, and chastity, a heady combination that would make even the strongest man fall to his knees
Sylvain Reynard
#51. The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul
lust.
Marina Warner
#53. When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.
Josemaria Escriva
#54. While it wasn't a total given that all members of the Color Guard also belonged to the Chastity Club, twirling flags was considered one of the most wholesome activities on campus, meaning the ratio of Chastity girls in Color Guard was something like that of Mormons in Utah.
Gemma Halliday
#55. Supposed to be commissioned by the Church, the pardoners would sell absolution for any sin from gluttony to homicide, cancel any vow of chastity or fasting, remit any penance for money, most of which they pocketed.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#56. The two Crabfest eaters pulled out bills one at a time. Then they each opened their change purse as though it were a rusted chastity belt. Heidi
Harlan Coben
#57. The only qualities that befit a woman are gentle obedience, chastity, mercy, and quietness,
Janice P. Nimura
#58. Chastity is not an attribute of body, but soul.
Udai Yadla
#59. For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.
Doris Lessing
#61. Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.
Mark Twain
#62. The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to conserve forever the state of perfect chastity in which it had left the bookseller.
Anne Fadiman
#64. I would tell him how he almost made us lose interest in passion by his obsession with the gestures empty of their emotions, and how we reviled him, because he almost caused us to take vows of chastity, because what he wanted us to exclude was our own aphrodisiac - poetry.
Anais Nin
#65. For everyone, whatever his state
single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.
Josemaria Escriva
#66. Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.
Charmian Clift
#68. Chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.
Joanna Russ
#69. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
Blaise Pascal
#70. When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity.
Sharon Kay Penman
#73. Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.
Peg Bracken
#74. Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette
Marie Clair
#75. I may become weak and start listening to what my body has to say more than my brain. So I elect you the responsible one."
"I've been crazy about you since we met. You've elected Bill Clinton president of the chastity club.
Robin Alexander
#76. Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
Benjamin Franklin
#77. The truth is that wherever a man lies with a woman, there, whether they like it or not, a transcendental relation is set up between them which must be eternally enjoyed or eternally endured.
C.S. Lewis
#78. Good and safe" are all I have been during my romantic career, keeping myself virtuous outside of relationships never putting out before I had a commitment and a half dozen dates under my belt.
Valentine Glass
#79. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it
Henry David Thoreau
#80. It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.
Madonna Ciccone
#81. You're taking umbrage like a tart whose lack of chastity has been pointed out to her.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#82. Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a king (cf. Gen. 41).
Pachomius The Great
#83. Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.
Elisabeth Charlotte D'Orleans
#84. Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.
Mason Cooley
#85. Chastity is curable, if detected early.
Woody Allen
#86. A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention.
Mother Teresa
#87. Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont.
Aldous Huxley
#88. Poor control-freak Jeb. Your world's way off-kilter when little Alyssa's not tripping over her chastity belt. Is that it, bad boy?
A.G. Howard
#89. What can chastity or purity even mean, once you have smiled at sodomy?
Anthony M. Esolen
#90. Really? Then why is it my memories from that time are locked up tighter than a virgin in an iron maiden chastity belt that's been welded shut? I had always had a way with words.
Eve Langlais
#91. Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar love, full of chastity and purity.
Jakob Bohme
#92. Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
Mary Baker Eddy
#93. Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
John Donne
#94. Obedience in the womb, chastity in the tomb but involuntary poverty all his days.
James Joyce
#95. Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
Karl Kraus
#96. I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
J. Paul Getty
#97. Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.
Elizabeth I
#98. Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.
Robert Owen
#99. These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.
Swami Vivekananda
#100. 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
