Quotes About Abstinence

Everything that has happened drives me in that direction, theoretically. But I don't feel reduced by my abstinence, as I did in the past. The craving is gone and maybe this is what reduces me. •

holy man will follow after temperance and self-denial. He will labour to mortify the desires of his body, to crucify his flesh with his affections and lusts, to curb his passions, to restrain his

Once again, I am thankful that alcohol is not my temptation.

In other parts of the world, they have double-bed sheets," wrote Wilbur Larch in A Brief History of St. Cloud's. "Here in St. Cloud's we do without—we just do without.

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

Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.

Just wanted to remind you I didn't give up sex for Lent.

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

The best contraceptive is the word "no" repeated frequently.

We pray, give us this day our daily bread—not our daily caneton à la presse. Luxury should be the détente after work, the riot after abstinence, one should not become used to it.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

I do not drink more than a sponge.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.

Complete abstention may be much easier than moderation.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.