Saint Augustine Quotes

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.

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

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.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

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

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

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

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.

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

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

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

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

I didn't sleep with anyone till I was 23.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.

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

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

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."

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

I want to wait to have sex until I'm married. I do. I want to wait, but it's hard. I just want to live my life.

I have a purity ring.

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