P. A. Von Doss

“ Your light, O Youth, is your chastity; it is the light of your soul. The more perfect your chastity, the brighter your soul, the more resplendent before God, the better able to reflect the likeness of the Most-High, and to receive within itself every other virtue. Chastity is, moreover, the light of your body; it gives to the body a certain brightness, it clothes it with a becoming charm, it impresses it with something indescribably heavenly, which wonderfully elevates it, in contrast to its opposite degrading vice. ”

“ Are you chaste, then you possess all things; as long as you are not chaste—then all is yet to be accomplished, then the most important, the most eminent virtue is certainly wanting. Are you chaste—have you preserved your chastity, or have you by a great and continual struggle recovered it? ”

“ Chastity, the Light of Youth.
"THE light of thy body is thy eye," says our Saviour; "is thy eye simple, then thy whole body is lightsome." Yes, indeed, effectually and cheerfully does our body perform its task, and confidently does it strive to attain its mark, so long as the eye is sound, so long as it is bright, and able to receive exterior light. "But if thy eye be evil," thus continues our Lord, "thy whole body shall be darksome;" then the body feels uneasy, then it trembles at every movement, then dangers threaten it ”