Quotes About Abstinence

This theory, then, is in the first place based on an erroneous assumption--viz., that abstinence from things lawful is intrinsically a higher sort of virtue than temperance in the use of them. This is not true. Abstinence is the virtue of the weak, temperance is the virtue of the strong.

I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke and if I go out to a movie I like to watch things that are moral.

I haven't watched telly for years.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

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

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

I don't even drink coffee.

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

And some materials also claim that condoms are ineffective because students who can't "exercise self-control to remain abstinent" are not likely to "exercise self-control" and use a condom. That's like saying we shouldn't teach our kids safe drinking techniques because those who choose to drink underage can't control themselves anyway—so we should just let them binge drink without any guidance at all.

I have attended church regularly since I was less than a week old. I've listened to sermons about virtue, sermons against vice. I have heard about money, time management, tithing, abstinence, and generosity. I've listened to thousands of sermons. But I could count on one hand the number of sermons that were a simple proclamation of the gospel of Christ.

Let those to whom God gives the gift of abstinence know that they shall receive their proper reward

The greatest power available to man is not to use it.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

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A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

Refrain tonight;And that shall lend a kind of easinessTo the next abstinence: the next more easy;For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

I'm a recovering abstainer

After all, it had been…how long since his last sexual encounter? He did some mental math: carry the one, make the seven an eight…multiply by pi…add the square root of sixty-two…do the hokeypokey and turn yourself around…When he saw the final number, he immediately erased the blackboard. No way could it have

To refrain from unlawful and impious source of pleasures is an ornament to the poor and to be thankful for the riches granted is the adornment of wealth.