Tenskwatawa Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

We abstained from having sex until we got married.

I have fifteen; I know no one who has more; but some of those sealed to me are old ladies whom I regard rather as mothers than wives, but whom I have taken home to cherish and support.

Thro’ want of Ministers to marry and thro’ the licentiousness of the People, many hundreds live in Concubinage – swopping their Wives as Cattel, and living in a State of Nature, more irregularly and unchastely than the Indians.

… the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistress…

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced.

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

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids.

I love women. I mean, I'm married, but I used to get in all kinds of trouble.

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

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

I'm married, so I tend not to hit on every girl.

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.