Ramakrishna Quotes

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I don't know whether the exploits of Alexander and Caesar really surpass the resolution of a beautiful young woman, bred up in the light and commerce of our society, who still keeps herself whole. There is no doing so hard as not doing.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

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

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God.

Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

I have such respect for women. My mother was one of the great people I've of known in my life.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.

To the pure all things are pure!

Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way?