George Carey Quotes

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

I want to wait to have sex until I'm married.

We abstained from having sex until we got married.

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

I'm not promiscuous by nature.

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

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

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

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

No red man shall take more than one wife in the future. No red man shall run after women. If he is single, let him take a wife, and lie only with her.

[Church] Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery.

My main goal is to wait until I'm married to have sex. I would never, personally, be able to (have an abortion), because down the road it would always haunt me.

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.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

I never cheated on my wife. I took seriously those vows of celibacy.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

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