Sexual Abstinence Quotes

#1. Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.

John Piper

#2. ? People are still ill from the after-effects of these priestly quack-cures! For example, think of certain diets (avoidance of meat), of fasting, sexual abstinence

Anonymous

#3. Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Look for the silver lining in every cloud and those revelations will create the thread to weave the fabric of a renewed and joyous life.

Joy Smith

#5. Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage." If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!

Molly Kelly

#6. The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.

Girdhar Joshi

#7. That's when I realize - he's afraid of me every bit as much as he is of Vel. We're like the wicked witch and her demon familiar or something.

Ann Aguirre

#8. Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.

Kerry Healey

#9. The CIA's resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves-not polar bears on icebergs.

John Barrasso

#10. In addition to shaming sexual-assault victims, positioning abstinence as women's domain further promotes the notion that it's women's morality that's on the line when it comes to sex, men just can't help themselves, so their ethics are safe from criticism.

Jessica Valenti

#11. Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.

Keith Olbermann

#12. He's every adventure I ever want to be on

Bill Willingham

#13. When abstinence curricula contain information about sexual abuse or assault (though they often don't), the message is similar: The onus of preventing sexual assault is on girls, not on men.

Jessica Valenti

#14. The abstinence-only programs and reclaimed-virginity movement make men and women ashamed of being sexual creatures before or outside of marriage.

Darrel Ray

#15. I am ... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Toni Morrison

#17. Whether electing abstinence from sex or choosing to engage in sex with multiple lovers, sexual empowerment is about making decisions which are right and safe and true for you.

Miya Yamanouchi