Thomas Secker Quotes

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

Taste not, touch not, handle not.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

We should be living a life of purity.

I don't smoke, drink, do drugs or even have affairs. If I don't even swear, I should be put in a shrine and sanctified.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.