Zitat des Tages über Abstinenz / Abstinence:
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
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.
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.
What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.
Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
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.
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
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.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher,' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta.
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.