Quotes About Chastity

But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability.

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

I don't want to be promiscuous.

I'm not promiscuous by nature.

Cuántas horas he pasado conviviendo en secreto con mi idea de ella! ¡Nos hemos amado tanto, dentro de mis sueños! Pero ni siquiera ahí, se lo juro, he soñado nunca poseerla. Soy delicado y casto incluso en mis sueños. Respeto hasta el sueño de una mujer bella.

Let us be as chaste as dead lips, as pure as dreamed bodies, as resigned to being both these things as mad little nuns …

And since we wish to be sterile, let us also be chaste, for there is nothing more shameful and ignoble than to forswear what in Nature is fertile while holding on to the part we like in what we've forsworn. There are no halfway noble attitudes.

Por supuesto no ganaba dinero. Se fue a vivir a casa de su padre quien lo mantenía, cuando su padre murió, lo mantuvo su madre. Y por supuesto no dejó de escribir y de producir libros enormes e irregulares en donde a veces se percibía un humor tembloroso y brillante. En ocasiones llegó a presumir, años después, de que se mantenía casto desde 1985.

Remember I told you I've taken a vow of chastity. You understand what that means, right? Yeah," he said. "You're very generous. I think that's cool." I didn't quite get his answer, but I didn't want to prolong the conversation. [...] That's when it dawned on me what Greg had meant. [...] Um, that's charity, Greg, not chastity. He is so not the right guy for me.(137-138)

A hermit said, "Do not judge an adulterer if you are chaste or you will break the law of God just as much as he does. For he who said 'Do not commit adultery' also said 'Do not judge.

A bank with a reputation for mercy is like a whore with a reputation for chastity – one fears they won't get the job done.

Honi soit qui mal y pense [Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it].

The early Christians saw the connections quite clearly, which is why they set themselves apart from the licentiousness. They did not frequent houses of prostitution, they did not divorce, they did not kill their babies, and they did not engage in sexual perversion.

Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar love, full of chastity and purity.

We should be living a life of purity.

I have a purity ring.

And what is meant by the girls' innocence is not the usual chastity, but the innocence of sacrifice, an innocence which has just as much to do with the body.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

It's just a psychological cliché you brought over with you from Russia. I assure you there are no non-believers, particularly among artistic people. The nature of faith varies—the greater the intellect, the more complex the form it takes. There's also a form of intellectual chastity which won't allow anything to be discussed or articulated. We're surrounded by the most vulgar forms of primitive religiosity, and it's hard to bear Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I would tell him how he almost made us lose interest in passion by his obsession with the gestures empty of their emotions, and how we reviled him, because he almost caused us to take vows of chastity, because what he wanted us to exclude was our own aphrodisiac—poetry.

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!