Abstinence Quotations

Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.

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

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

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

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

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

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher,' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta.

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

Massachusetts does not need or want federally funded programs that promote a particular religion and contain misleading information when it comes to preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Our students need federally funded programs that discuss the benefits of abstinence and teach them about effective use of contraception.

It is not our intention in any way, shape or form to promote our vaccine as a substitute for any other prevention approach, be it abstinence or screening.

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

Abstinence is a perversion.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Abstinence from sinful deeds not only ensures freedom from 'pains' but it also bless us with good health and long life.

Abstinence until marriage is the best thing for young people physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. It's the best thing for society as a whole, and it's the message that schools absolutely ought to be sending.

They could have other sex education but the abstinence course would be required. Abstinence is the only curriculum to ensure 100 percent protection for our students.

I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.

They help people develop inner strength, help them take charge of their lives, and redirect their energies into healthy and productive choices, ... While the evidence is still being collected, we are seeing the benefits of a strong abstinence message.

Abstinence is approved of God.

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

It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves with burnt ash to remind us of our sinfulness, forgiveness and mortality. It sets the tone for the penitential season leading up to Easter.

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

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

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

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

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

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

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

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

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

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.

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

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

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

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.