Abstinence Quotes

Abstinence Quote of the day

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage." If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

Abstinence is approved of God.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

When you're dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you're doing what's best for your beloved, not just what feels good in the moment.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable.

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .