Author Topic: The Saints on Purity (Read 1358 times)

Stubborn · « **Reply #25 on:** **Yesterday** at 06:23:54 AM »

“It’s not possible”, says the wise man, “for a man to walk on red hot coals and not be burned”. On this subject, St. John Chrysostom writes: “Are you perhaps a stone, or of iron? No, you are man, subject to the common weakness of nature. Do not think that you will not be burned if you take fire to your hand. How else could this be? Put a burning light into the hay, and then say that there be no blaze, like hay is this nature of ours. Hence, it is not possible for a man to expose himself voluntarily to the occasions of sin against chastity, and not fall into oppressiveness. We should fly from sin as from the face of a serpent. We fly not only from the bite of the serpent but also from contact with it and proximity to it”.

Maria Dolorosa · « **Reply #26 on:** **Yesterday** at 10:04:14 AM »

St. John Damascene says that Mary is pure and a lover of purity, and therefore she cannot endure the impure. But whoever has recourse to her will certainly be delivered from this vice by only pronouncing her name with confidence. And the venerable John of Avila says that many temptations against chastity have been overcome solely by devotion to the Immaculate Virgin.

— St. Alphonsus Liguori, the Glories of Mary, on the chastity of Mary

Stubborn · « **Reply #27 on:** **Today** at 04:45:38 AM »

We must also avoid the company and conversations with persons who may be to us an occasion of yielding to any sin against purity. St. Ambrose remarks that the chaste Joseph would not stop to hear the first words of a friend’s wife, but instantly fled away, considering that there was great danger in waiting to listen to her.

But someone may say, “I know my duty”. But let him attend to the words of St. Francis of Assisi: “I know what I ought to do, but I know not would I would do were I to remain in the occasion of sin”.

Telling · « **Reply #28 on:** **Today** at 06:43:47 AM »

'As long as certain audacious modes of dress remain the sad privilege of women of dubious reputation and almost a sign by which they may be known, no-one else would dare to wear that same dress upon herself: but the moment that it appears upon persons beyond all reproach, she will hesitate no longer to follow the current, a current which will drag her perhaps to the worst fall.'

Pope Pius XII

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