Fornication is a lapse from one marriage into many.—Clement of Alexandria.
Digamists (widowers who re-marry) are saved in the name of Christ, but are by no means crowned by him.—Origen.
Second marriage is “a decent sort of adultery.”—Athenagoras.
It was no part of God’s primitive design that the race should be continued by sexual union. Marriage is the outcome of sin.—St. Gregory of Nyssa (a married bishop).
Blessed is the one who leads a celibate life, and soils not the divine image within him with the filth of concupiscence.
Fierce is the dragon, and cunning the asp;
But woman has the malice of both.
—St. Gregory of Nazianzum.
Why was woman created at all?—St. Augustine.
Thou art the devil’s gate, the betrayer of the tree, the first deserter of the divine law!