Best 70 quotes in «abstinence quotes» category

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner.

Abstinence is approved of God.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.

If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.

Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?

If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately.

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

I'm against suing tobacco companies. I think abstinence is a perversion. I think Bush's lies are worse than Clinton's. I think Vegas was better when it was run by the mob. I think men are only as loyal as their options. I think stereotypes are true and rehab is for quitters.

I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

Our main reproductive organ is our brain.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

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

Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative.

As Feministing.com commenter electron-Blue noted in response to the 2008 New York Times Magazine article “Students of Virginity,” on abstinence clubs at Ivy League colleges, “There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was special enough to start a club about it, for pete’s sake.

Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the ability to perceive, in silence, the call of reality, and to make, in the retreat of this silence, the decision appropriate to the concrete situation of concrete action.

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

A chastity device won't put out the flames of burning flesh. The Ultimate Guide to Chastity Removing the Iron Panties

Capitalism, like abstinence, works every time it's tried.