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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #60 on: April 02, 2026, 10:01:43 PM »
“Be extremely prompt in turning away from all the advances and from all the allurements of incontinence, for this evil works insensibly, and by little beginnings advances to great misfortunes: it is always easier to flee than to cure it.” 

— St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Chapter XIII, Counsels for Preserving Chastity
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Offline Stubborn

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Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #61 on: April 04, 2026, 01:58:21 PM »
Speaking of priests, St. Jerome says that they ought to avoid not only every unchaste act, but every glance of the eye.

We conclude with a remark with between priests and married men, there is only one minor difference. A priest may look at no woman with desire, a married man, may look at only one. 
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #62 on: April 05, 2026, 04:19:21 PM »
"The second means is to fly the occasions of sin. He that is aware of the snares shall be secure. Hence St. Philip Neri said, that in this warfare cowards conquer; that is, those who avoid dangerous occasions."

— The Glories of Mary, St. Alphonsus Liguori, on the chastity of Mary
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #63 on: April 06, 2026, 08:19:28 PM »
"By only looking at a person, we know if he is pure. His eyes have an air of candour and modesty which leads you to the good God. Some people, on the contrary, look quite inflamed with passion. . . . Satan places himself in their eyes to make others fall and to lead them to evil."

— St. Jean Marie Vianney, Catechism on Impurity, from The Spirit of the Curé of Ars, translated by a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, 1865
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #64 on: Yesterday at 01:08:22 PM »
There are some souls so dead, so rotten, that they lie in their defilement without perceiving it, and can no longer clear themselves from it: everything leads them to evil, every thing reminds them of evil, even the most holy things; they always have these abominations before their eyes; like the unclean animal that is accustomed to live in filth, that is happy in it, that rolls itself and goes to sleep in it, that grunts in the mud; these persons are an object of horror in the eyes of God and of the holy angels.

— St. Jean Marie Vianney, Catechism on Impurity, from The Spirit of the Curé of Ars, translated by a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, 1865
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