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Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.
- St. Augustine
Dear God, As I rise up, I thank You for the opportunity to be on this earth. I thank You for my mind and body, I thank You for my life. Please bless my body and use it for Your purposes. May I rise up strong today, and may my body and soul radiate Your love. May all impurities be cast out of my mind, my heart, my body. May every cell of my being be filled with Your light.
- Marianne Williamson
We honestly think that we ourselves and those around us should be proficient with spiritual power, moving and acting with agility and endurance, wisdom and purity, able to conquer long-established habits of sloth and rebelliousness, simply on the basis of our desire and effort and sincerity...We have to train for the spiritual life.
- Mark Buchanan
Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.
- Mark Dever
Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery.
- Mark Driscoll
To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted notion where it's like strangers and potential sexual objects.
- Mark Driscoll
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
- Heinrich Heine
Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.
- John Milton
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old when all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones forget not.
- John Milton
The wisdom that is from above, is not only pure, but also peaceable and gentle; and the lack of these qualifications, like the dead fly in the jar of ointment, will spoil the fragrance and efficacy of our labors. If we act in a wrong spirit—we shall bring little glory to God; do little good to our fellow creatures; and procure neither honor nor comfort to ourselves! If you can be content with showing your wit, and gaining the laugh on your side—you have an easy task!
- John Newton
He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.
- John Owen
Let not man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.
- John Owen