Quotes about Chastity
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
But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
— 1 Corinthians 7:9
Chastity may be a fetish invented by certain societies for unknown reasons.
— Virginia Woolf
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
and 32,000 women who had not slept with a man.
— Numbers 31:35
People often ask if it is difficult to be a celibate monk or nun, but to practice mindfulness as a monastic is in many ways easier than to practice as a layperson. To refrain from sexual activity altogether is much easier than to have a healthy sexual relationship.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
— 1 Thessalonians 4:4
We should be living a life of purity.
— Jeremy Camp
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
— St. Jerome
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
— St. Jerome
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
— St. Augustine
“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
— Job 31:1