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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

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

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

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

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

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.

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.

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

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.