Bill Gothard Quotes

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

Lock up the fornicators!

Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me that sex is the most awful and filthy thing on earth, and you should save it for someone you love.

I was by no means a nun.

Being a virgin doesn't mean you can't have a good time.

Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren’t virgins, Min. That’s why there’s people to begin with.

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives a man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things.

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.

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.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was special enough to start a club about it, for pete’s sake.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.