63 Quotes About Chastity

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

The celibate must firmly keep himself in Brahma Charya (i.e. chastity) until his wife arrives, he has to firmly establish himself in Brahma Charya and it is not possible to remain in Brahma Charya if we do not know how to transmute the sexual energy.

Chastity may be a fetish invented by certain societies for unknown reasons.

It's true, I'd planned to wait

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God’s attention.

Originally and naturally, sexual pleasure was the good, the beautiful, the happy, that which united man with nature in general. When sexual feelings and religious feelings became separated from one another, that which is sexual was forced to become the bad, the internal, the diabolical.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

Item, I've read that there's not a single virgin to be found in your country," said the statesman."Where might you have read this?" asked the Professor Antiquitatum."The good auctor Blefken says this.""I wonder if the good auctor might not have misread his sources," said Arnaeus. "The best auctores tell us that Icelandic girls remain chaste virgins up until they've had their seventh child, Your Benevolence.

To be carnally minded is to be spiritually dead