Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.
If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
I would like to outlaw contraception. . . contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.
Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.
The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence. "
Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease.
Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately.
Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage. " If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.
Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex.