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Day 19: The Need for Chastity, Poverty, and Obedience (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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Chastity - The Lily of Virtues

Chastity is called honesty, and the possession of it honor. It is also called integrity, and its contrary corruption. We are never permitted to draw any shameless pleasure from our hearts in any way whatsoever except in the context of true marriage. The chaste heart is like the mother of pearl, which can receive no water drops except those that come from heaven. Such a heart can accept no pleasure but that of marriage, which is ordained from heaven.

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