Chastity Purity Quotes

We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.

Alphonsus Liguori

Practice, Catholic, Dresses

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We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.

Peter Julian Eymard

Catholic, Purity And Love, Our Actions

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There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

Saint Augustine

Powerful, Passion, Sleep

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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

Triumph, Crowns, Purity

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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Saint Augustine

Catholic, Lust, Purity And Love

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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

Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

Saint John Chrysostom

Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

Thomas Aquinas

Evil, Catholic, Purity And Love

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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

John Henry Newman

Catholic, Soul, And Love

John Henry Newman, James Tolhurst (1849). “Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations”, p.63, Gracewing Publishing

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The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this!

Peter Julian Eymard

Lying, Giving, Perfect

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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Eric Hoffer

Mind, Literature, Chastity

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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

John Vianney

Beautiful, Rose, Heaven

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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. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.

Mother Teresa

Jesus, Heart, Giving

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As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.

Josemaria Escriva

Temptation, Catholic, Grace

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Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

Josemaria Escriva

Humility, Catholic, Purity

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Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

Pope Clement I

Catholic, Lust, Purity And Love

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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

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Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure...a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure which burns quickly like a pile of withered grass. Passing encounters are only a caricature of love; they injure hearts and mock God's plan.

Pope John Paul II

Home, Heart, Fire

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God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Saint Augustine

Catholic, Purity And Love, Our Actions

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To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?

Josemaria Escriva

Snow, Saint, Ponds

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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

Beautiful, Honesty, Integrity

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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.

Pope John Paul II

Kindness, Long, Waiting

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The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

John Vianney

Men, Catholic, Purity And Love

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To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.

Mother Teresa

Beautiful, Knowing, Giving

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Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.

John Milton

Brother, Arrows, Nymphs

John Milton (1846). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Explanatory Notes and a Life of the Author, by H. Stebbing. To which is Prefixed Dr. Channing's Essay on the Poetical Genius of Milton”, p.410

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