Quotes: The Virtue of Chastity

 


 

“When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.”

Josemaria Escriva

 

“Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.”

David A. Bednar

 

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

Solon

 

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Mary Baker Eddy

 

“Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity.

Now the purity of man is chastity, which is called honesty, and the observance of it, honor and also integrity; and its contrary is called corruption.

In short, it has this peculiar excellence above the other virtues, that it preserves both soul and body fair and unspotted.”

Saint Francis de Sales

 

“Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.”

St. Jerome

 

 

 

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