Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

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

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

We abstained from having sex until we got married.

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

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

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.

Everyone knows me and my wife's story. We didn't have sex until we got married.

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

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.

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.

If you're one of the Disney kids, it's like you have to talk about having a promise ring, you know?

I don't know if you can be a born-again virgin.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Wedding rings need to be sparkly to remind us not to have sex with other people.

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.

I'm not promiscuous by nature.

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.

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.