Abstinence Quotes

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage." If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the ability to perceive, in silence, the call of reality, and to make, in the retreat of this silence, the decision appropriate to the concrete situation of concrete action.

Abstinence is approved of God.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

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.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

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

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

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

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

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.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

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.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

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

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

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

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable.

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

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

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

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

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

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

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

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.

Our main reproductive organ is our brain.

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

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

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

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.

The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."