63 Quotes About Chastity

The celibate man must stand firm in chastity until his wife arrives, and it is not possible to do so when he does not know how to transmute his sexual energy.

Chastity is not an attribute of body, but soul.

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont.

Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

But I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed with the gift of the seed of Adam, a sower of seed, to bring forth generations of new life.This I was, and envying a kettle.

The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.

We are sometimes forced by nature to feel like having sex, but never to have sex.

It is preferable to have a virgin mind than a virgin body. Each is good if each be possible; if it be not possible, let me be chaste, not to man but to God.

The decent man and the lover holds back even when he could obtain what he wishes. To win this silent consent is to make use of all the violence permitted in love. To read it in the eyes, to see it in the ways in spite of the mouth's denial, that is the art of he who knows how to love. If he then completes his happiness, he is not brutal, he is decent. He does not insult chasteness; he respects it; he serves it.