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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #35 on: Yesterday at 12:29:33 PM »
For the first degree of this virtue, take care, Philothea, not to admit any sort of carnal gratification that is prohibited and forbidden, as are all those which are taken out of marriage, or even in marriage when they are taken against the rule of marriage. For the second, refrain yourself as far as possible from useless and superfluous delectations, though they be lawful and permissible. For the third do not set your affections on those pleasures and gratifications which are commanded and ordained; for though we must practise certain necessary delectations—that is to say, those which concern the end and institution of holy marriage—yet we must never set our heart and mind upon them.

— Chapter XII, Of the Necessity of Chastity, St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
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Offline Stubborn

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« Reply #36 on: Today at 11:57:59 AM »
Ecclesiasticus 9:5 advises us to imitate the example of Job, “gaze not upon a maiden, lest her beauty be a stumbling block to thee”. St. Augustine adds, “from looks spring evil thoughts, the thoughts produce a certain carnal delectation, though indeliberate. To this indeliberate delectation succeeds the consent of the will, and behold, the soul is lost”.
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

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« Reply #37 on: Today at 04:24:19 PM »
Yet in the case of many young persons it would be the greatest benefit, it might even preserve them from eternal destruction, were they to lose the sight of their bodily eyes. To such I might repeat the words which St. Severin addressed upon one occasion to a young monk, who besought him to pray for the restoration of his sight. “My son," he said, "do not trouble yourself about the eyes of your body, but rather about those of your soul." To many young persons the saying of the prophet is applicable: "Death is come up through our windows (the eyes), it is entered into our house (the soul)." The enemy of the lily of purity enters into the human heart through the eye. 

— The Catholic Girl’s Guide, The Lily and her Enemies
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