We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.
He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.