Best 70 quotes in «abstinence quotes» category

One's prescription can seem extensive--even overwhelming, depending on an individual's circumstance--and I can imagine the prospects exciting few people of any stripe. Lots of eaters are going to balk at abstaining, but to learn that recovery is going to require rigorous honesty, or more attention to spirit, could be far more off-putting. Then again, who gets excited about any serious treatment prescription? Certainly not the cancer patient told she'll have to undergo radiation, or the back patient ordered to a month's uninterrupted bed rest, or the lung patient told he'll need a double transplant. To some, the flaw of those comparisons will be their being equated with food addiction, and that is the rub, entirely. The medical profession and the public at large don't see that they are equivalent. The consequences of obesity (the chief consequence of food addiction) constitute the fastest-growing, and soon the gravest, threat to public health. Obesity is suicide on lay-away: It has plenty of time to degrade quality of life before finally ending life prematurely.

Perhaps it’s true that in our sex-saturated culture it does take a certain amount of self-discipline to resist having sex, but restraint does not equal morality. And let’s be honest: if this were simply about resisting peer pressure and being strong, then the women who have sex because they actively want to — as appalling as that idea might be to those who advocate abstinence — wouldn’t be scorned. Because the “strength” involved in these women’s choice would be about doing what they want despite pressure to the contrary, not about resisting the sex act itself.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

Sometimes, being told not to do something just makes us want it all the more. Sometimes, a little of what you crave is better than total abstinence.

Sixty years of virginity tried in vain to dam the waters of instinct as they burst through the granite of good intentions,the rock of irreproachablee conduct.

Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor. It was not because it would violate the vows of the monks, which he had not taken, but because somehow it felt as though it would violate his teachers who still sat behind prison wire in Lhadrung.

She would grace his home with her charm and beauty and she would make his bed joyous, all without ever having to shame his hearth with another man's memory of her shamelessness.

The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.

There is more to life than what we know and there is more to sex than what we know.Life was designed by God for a purpose and so was sex.Life is sweet and sacred and so also is sex.But there is more to life than sex.Sex becomes profitable when you understand life, but very destructive when the purpose of life is not known.

There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.

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

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.

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 the worst form of perversion.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

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

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

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

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

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

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

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

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

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

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

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

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!

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Our main reproductive organ is our brain.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.