Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, “Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.
Chastity Quotes
‘Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.
If she is chaste when there is no fear of detection, she is truly chaste; she who sins not because she dare not, does the sin.
That woman speaks 18 languages and can’t say “No” in any of them.
I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; holy prayers and spiritual comfort; and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity.
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it. Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity […]
Chastity – you can carry it too far.
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it’s a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
