Quotes About Abstinence

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.

If I can't have too many truffles I'll do without.

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

Popular Cynicism did not teach abstinence from the good things of this world, but only a certain indifference to them.

He urges his young disciple and friend Pythocles to "flee from every form of culture." It was a natural consequence of his principles that he advised abstinence from public life, for in proportion as a man achieves power he increases the number of those who envy him and therefore wish to do him injury.

Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.

I love to eat, even though it is easy for me not to eat (when no one feeds me, when there is no food around).

I'm not an alcohol drinker. Instead of the real beer, I just go with root beer.

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Many people today have discarded the Bible's clear teaching on sexual relations outside of marriage, simply because they are absorbed only in their own pleasures and desires.

If one is unable to buy Courvoisier, one should forcibly restrain oneself from serving strawberries Romanoff for dessert.

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

I do not consume alcohol. You won't find a single picture that shows me drinking.

I've never had a sip of alcohol.

We all know individuals in recovery who have given up the booze or another addiction, yet they are staying dry or abstinent only by redirecting their intense inner misery into the lives of others.

Without emotional and spiritual recovery, you don't have much. You have abstinence, and you may not even have that for very long. If you don't follow the "clear-cut" directions of our Program, you can't move into receiving God's directions.

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.