continency

1 "I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they have not continency, let them marry."

2 So long as I do a husband's part, I fail in continency.

3 I know you all well, you virtuous gentlemen, you fine priests who preach continency and morality, you are all just the same, all of you, do you hear?

4 It is worthy of remark that most distinguished women since the days of Sappho and Semiramis have been impure, while not a few great men have been remarkable for their continency.

5 They exalted, as Hegel said, the virtue of resignation, of continency, of obedience, above the great old Pagan virtues, which ought to distinguish a Teuton.

6 Imparting sanity and sweetness, it spares from decay, giving life with temperance and a continency that keeps our pleasures chaste and perennial.

7 Thou enjoinest us continency; and when I knew, saith one, that no man can be continent, unless God give it, this also was a part of wisdom to know whose gift she is.

8 Some go so far as to declare continency impracticable.

9 Those continency plans likely don’t include selecting the contract of top pitching prospect Logan Gilbert, who is making starts at the alternate training site in Tacoma.

10 But whatever he was himself, this we regard as certain concerning him, that he left successors renowned for their great continency, their love of God, and their monastic rules.

11 Since Thou gavest me continency I have observed it; but I retain the memory of evil habits, and their images come up oft before me.

12 “Secondly, it was ordained for a remedy against sin, and to avoid fornication, that such persons as have not the gift of continency might marry and keep themselves undefiled members of Christ’s body.”

13 Thus continency of the married state is said to be signified by the thirtyfold fruit; the continency of widowhood, by the sixtyfold; and virginal continency, by the hundredfold fruit.

14 But I, wretched, most wretched, in the very beginning of my early youth, had begged chastity of thee, and said, "Give me chastity and continency, only not yet."

15 “Give me chastity and continency, O Lord,” he would pray, “but do not give it yet,” and perhaps this is the frankest of the confessions of Saint Augustine. 

16 Is it not false to glorify by inference those persons who have ‘the gift of continency,’ a ‘gift’ which, if common to the majority, would soon result in the extinction of the human race?

17 On the other hand, the "gift of continency" he did not possess, or trouble himself to acquire.

18 He compares it to gold, and marriage, which is yet good and honorable, to silver; but prescribes times of continency to married persons for prayer.

19 From that time forth he kept himself with all vigilance, seeking to attain purity of soul and body, and living in continency and prayers and intercessions all night long.

20 He translates kalá by "continency," and describes it as "the power by which the senses are subdued and the carnal self brought into subjection."

1 克己

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2 禁欲

continent Stoic monastic austere ascetic puritanical ascetical ascetically celibacy continence Stoicism mortification self-denial self-mortification