Abstinence Quotes

“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.”

“Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.”

“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.”

“Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...”

“While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.”

“If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.”

“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.”

“When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.”

“Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.”