Quotes Tagged "chastity"

It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our spouses were not going to show up out of the blue. It was hard to start a sexual relationship in circumstances of such bizarre uncertainty, especially for an active Mormon and a good Christian, both lost in a Zoroastrian Hell. We were like virgin newlyweds. All my life I’d been raised to believe this kind of thing was wrong. All my life I had lived with a strong sense of morality. How do you give it up? How do you do things you thought you’d never do? Where do all the things you believed go, when all the supporting structure is found to be a myth? How do you know how or on what to take a moral stand, how do you behave when it turns out there are no cosmic rules, no categorical imperatives? It was difficult. So tricky to untangle.

Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind.

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.

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

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