Chastity Purity Quotes - Page 2

• Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.

  Philip Neri

  Fall, Humility, Men

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• A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity.

  John Vianney

  Eye, Angel, Sunshine

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• In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Spiritual, Temptation, Catholic

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2012). “Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year”, p.295, TAN Books

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• God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

  John of the Cross

  Desire, Degrees, Saint

  "The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross".

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• Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Catholic, Purity And Love

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

  David A. Bednar

  Law, Progress, Eternity

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• He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

  Venerable Bede

  Love, Faith, Christian

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• A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Onions, Literature, Coats

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.476, e-artnow

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• There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Inspiration, Thinking

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• That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!

  Josemaria Escriva

  Dirty, Enough, Conversation

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• The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.

  Marina Warner

  Children, Two, Years

  Marina Warner (2016). “Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary”, p.33, Oxford University Press

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