Saint Augustine Quotes About Chastity

Quotes about: Chastity

• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Humble, Fire

  "Why Do Christians Fast? Three Reasons Explained by St. Thomas Aquinas" by Gretchen Filz, www.catholiccompany.com. March 23, 2017.

• Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

  Saint Augustine

  Blessed, Heart, Men

• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  Saint Augustine

  Funny, Witty, Philosophical

  Confessions bk. 8, ch. 7 (397 - 398)

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

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Chastity, Give Me

  'Confessions' (397-8) bk. 8, ch. 7

• If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

  Saint Augustine

  Love Is, Fierce, Shameless

  Saint Augustine (2010). “Treatises on Various Subjects (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 16)”, p.172, CUA Press

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