Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder
by which we may get to heaven.
Chastity is one of it's rungs.
-- St. Rose of Lima
The life of the body is the soul;
the life of the soul is God.
Chastity preserves the soul in God.
-- St. Anthony of Padua
Chastity
is a wall of defense and a crown of glory.
It makes the soul invincible.
-- St. John Chrysostom
The soul that is pure and chaste is like a crystal
through which the sun can shine without hindrance.
-- St. Theresa of Avila
Chastity...
enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said,
Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.
-- St. Augustine
Chastity is the virtue that enables us
to love with a pure heart,
without seeking anything for ourselves.
-- St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle
Chastity is a participation
in the incorruptible nature of God.
-- St. Gregory of Nyssa
He who preserves chastity is an angel;
he who loses it is a devil.
-- St. Ambrose
Chastity is the lilly of virtues,
and makes men almost equal to Angels...
it preserves both soul and body
fair and unspotted.
-- St. Francis de Sales
Chastity and fasting are the two wings
that lift the soul to heaven.
-- St. Jerome
The virtue of chastity, more than any other,
makes us resemble the angels.
-- St. John Bosco
He who loves chastity
will never be without the grace of God.
-- St. Alphonsus Liguori
Chastity is the virtue
which moderates the desire for sexual pleasure
according to right reason, faith,
and the dignity of the human person.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas
Chastity is not the absence of impurity,
but the presence of self mastery,
of love that is ordered and free.
-- St. Josemaria Escriva