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“The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of all is that each day Christ should reign among holy men. And this happens when the devil's power has been driven out of our hearts through the expulsion of sinful foulness and when God has begun to reign within us amid the good odors of virtue. With fornication vanquished, chastity rules; with anger overcome, peace is king; with pride under foot, humility is sovereign.”

“Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.”

Love Eye House Inspiring Four Flower Garden Rose Corners Noble Glorious His Eyes Concerts Accustomed Fragrance Columns Herbs Lilies Chastity Wondrous Abstinence Solomon Same Love

Author:Gian Carlo Menotti

“The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.”

Men Heaven Church Moral Morality Standards Men And Women Code Fidelity Chastity Double Standard Moral Code Before Marriage

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.”

Men Poor Rich Modern Dangerous Ethics Conviction Chastity Rich Man Modern Society

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.”

Mind Heart Soul Light Spirit Fire Subjects Catholic Raises Saint Clouds Humble Flesh Lust Fasting Chastity Kindles Catholic Saint Quench Lenten

Author:Saint Augustine

“Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.”

Sometimes Effects Mere Resolution Appetite Vow Chastity Distaste

Author:Andre Gide

“Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.”

Giving Age Known Imagine Easier Giving Up Old Age Adolescence Chastity Chaste

Author:Andre Gide

“It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.”

Wife Foolish Experiments Chastity Constancy

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.”

Thinking Firsts Intellect Surrender Skepticism Shameful Skeptic Chastity Ripeness

Author:George Santayana

“So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.”

Soul Found Heaven Sin Thousand Angel Guilt Dear Driving Sincerely Chastity

Book:Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c

Source: Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c

“There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.”

Self Desire Existence Depends Absence Lust Restraint Monk Thyself Adversaries Chastity Self Restraint

Author:Rumi

“Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.”

Eye Paint Chastity

Author:Tertullian

“The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.”

Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin