Quotes of: Chastity Keyword

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

George Santayana

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

David A. Bednar

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Blaise Pascal

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of .

Eyeless in Gaza

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Tacitus

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Anton Chekhov

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

Karl Kraus

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

J. Paul Getty

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Havelock Ellis

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Ezra Taft Benson

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

Alex Comfort

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Barbara Cartland

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Thomas Perry

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Samuel Butler

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

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette

Undone: Odette, Elle & me

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

James E. Faust

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

Grace not only embraces you at your most shameful, it's the most effective antidote to sin.

Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

Taslima Nasrin