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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2026, 05:45:11 PM »
You know how necessary chastity is: ‘‘Seek peace with all and holiness,” says the Apostle, “without which no one shall see God.” Now remark that by holiness he means chastity, according to the interpretation of Ss. Jerome and Chrysostom. No; no person shall see God without chastity: no person shall inhabit his holy tabernacles if he has not a pure heart; as our Saviour says, ‘‘Dogs and the impure shall be banished from it.” Also, “Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.” 

— St. Francis de Sales, Introduction, Chapter XII, The Necessity of Chastity
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Offline Stubborn

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« Reply #16 on: Yesterday at 04:32:09 AM »
“We must avail ourselves of the means of preserving chastity, we must”, says St. Augustine, “be far from those whose presence may entice us to evil”.

St. Philip Neri used to say that; “in this warfare, cowards, that is, they that fly from the occasions, are victorious”. “Concupiscence”, says Pierre Dubois, “is overcome by nothing more easily, than by flight”.
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« Reply #17 on: Today at 04:57:27 AM »
The grace of God is a great treasure, this treasure we carry in vessels that are frail and easily broken. We have this treasure in earthen vessels, says St. Paul to the Corinthians. Man cannot of himself acquire the virtue of chastity, God alone can give it. I knew, said Solomon, that I could not otherwise be continent except God gave it. Wis. 8:21
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

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« Reply #18 on: Today at 05:21:34 PM »
The glory of God! — Oh! Cæcilia understood it; most earnestly did she long for it. She divined that her Jesus was athirst for souls . . . that is why her whole desire was that she might lead speedily to Him the soul of the young Roman, who dreamed of naught but human glory: this wise Virgin will make of him a martyr, and multitudes will follow in his footprints. She fears nothing: the Angels have promised and have sung of peace. She knows that the Prince of Peace is bound to protect her, to shield her virginity and to give to her its recompense. "O how beautiful is the chaste generation!'' (Wisdom iv, i) 

— St. Thérèse of Lisieux, XVII Letter to her Sister Céline: https://archive.org/details/thoughtsofservan00thrs/page/116/mode/2up
 
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