Best 70 quotes in «abstinence quotes» category

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 many times very helpful to the end of religion.

Abstinence is approved of God.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

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

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.

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

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

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

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

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

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

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

[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.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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

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

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

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

First, if you are a homosexual or feel that inclination, keep yourself pure. If you are unmarried, you should practice abstinence from all sexual activity. I know this is difficult, but really what God is asking you to do is pretty much the same thing that he requires of all single people. That means not only keeping your body pure, but especially your mind. Just as heterosexual men should avoid pornography and fantasizing, you, too, need to keep your thought-life clean. Resist the temptation to rationalize sin by saying, “God made me this way.” God has made it very clear that He does not want you to indulge your desires, but to honor Him by keeping your mind and body pure. Finally, seek professional Christian counseling. With time and effort, you can come to enjoy normal, heterosexual relations with your spouse. There is hope.