13 Abstinence Quotes for You to Enjoy

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. Saint Augustine

Easier Total Perfect Abstinence Than Moderation Many

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Voltaire

Man Happy Neither Excess Abstinence Abuse Nor Use Ever

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. Frances E. Willard

Good Temperance Total Abstinence Moderation Foul Things

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty. Antonya Nelson

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A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. Henry Home

Man Sound Mind Mind Poverty Rich Enjoy Worst Abstinence Exercise Without Sound Nor Truly Cannot Rich Man Ingredients Body

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. John Piper

There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America. Leslie Jamison

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The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. Rick Santorum

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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. Samuel Butler

Good World Half Total Seeds Rather Abstinence Most Condemns Loudly Than Moderate Vices Which Them Require Use

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet. Tom Parker Bowles

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