Purity Quotes To Grab Your Teenager's Attention

Programs which teach sexual abstinence without teaching the principles of purity are bound to fail. Behavior and actions originate in the mind. Using purity quotes is one way to help students focus on purity principles without which, well-intentioned teenagers soon yield to their sexual urges.

Here are a few which can be used to start the purity conversation: as ice-breakers, wall displays, daily or weekly inspirational thoughts. This way, the principles of purity, which also apply to sexual conduct can be taught incidentally as well as intentionally.

The quotes are grouped under headings which represent various aspects of everyday living, all of which are important in the purity walk.

My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. – Napoleon Hill

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.—Mahatma Ghandi

Young people on a lark might keep in mind that all birds, except cuckoos, build their nests before hatching their eggs. -- Anonymous

Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.-- The Bible (Philippians 4:8)

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.—Mahatma Ghandi

If you want a guy to appreciate you for your mind, don’t overwhelm him with your cleavage and navel. Your point will be lost. –Lisa Bevere

A pure woman chooses to dress and act in such a way that she may be an object of respect rather than an object of lust or disgust. - The Complete Woman/Man Seminars

Candid minded men like to see women dress in such a way that they look feminine. - Ibid.

The outward appearance is an index to the heart. -- Ellen White

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment . . . Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. –The Bible (1 Peter 3:3,4)

Either sin will keep you from the Word, or the Word will keep you from sin. – John Bunyan

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust. – St. Clement of Alexandria

When you decide to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you; It will be a crown of triumph. - St. Josemaria Escriva

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. . . It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them. - Elisabeth Elliott.

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. - - the Bible (Romans 12:2)

Guard the senses . . . for these are the avenues to the soul. Avoid reading and seeing things which will suggest impure thoughts. Cultivate the moral and intellectual powers. -- Ellen White

TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your . . . imagination. Open a book. -- Author Unknown

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. -- P.J. O'Rourke

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos... two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished. ~Clifford Stoll

Run from anything that stimulates youthful lust. Follow anything that makes you want to do right. – The Bible (2 Timothy 2:22)

Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. -The Bible (Romans 12:9,10)

By celebrating purity and refusing to pursue sexuality, I was demonstrating (to my girlfriend) that I could be trusted in the present, and that sexuality outside of marriage would never be an option for me in the future. – Kirk Schafer

Sex is from God. He gave it to us as a gift. It's a wedding gift.— Bill Shannon

If really you love me you must give up the wine,
For the lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine. -- George W. Young

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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