Continence Quotes
Collection of top 14 famous quotes about Continence
Continence Quotes & Sayings
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
— Saint Augustine
He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.
— Pope Clement I
For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state.
— Meir Soloveichik
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!
— Karl Kraus
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
— Pope John Paul II
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
— Augustine Of Hippo
As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
— John Milton
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.
— Ernest Rutherford
Follow the truth to life and love what you do ... Be passionate about it to the point where you're willing to do anything for it.
— Elie Tahari
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
— Alan Hirsch
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to be helpful as an actress.
— Blake Lively