Top 40 Jason Evert Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Indecision is a decision.”

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2. “Love can wait to give. Lust can’t wait to get.”

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3. “Love is the greatest form of evangelization because it makes an invisible God visible.”

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4. “You don’t have to lower your morals to find love because, if you do, it’s not love that you’re finding.”

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5. “The closer you get to God, the more you become yourself.”

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6. “When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.”

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7. “The right relationship won’t distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him.”

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8. “Compatible comes from the Latin “compati”, meaning “to suffer with”. If you are not willing to suffer with someone until death do you part, then you are not compatible.”

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9. “Don’t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.”

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10. “Don’t let yourself be defined by the past. It’s done. All you have is now and the future.”

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11. “If you decide to live a pure life, don’t expect the world to understand your decision.”

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12. “Carry the rosary with you everywhere, and it will carry you through anything.”

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13. “Jesus didn’t suffer so we wouldn’t have to suffer. He suffered so that we would know how to suffer.”

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14. “When you’re dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you’re doing what’s best for your beloved, not just what feels good in the moment.”

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15. “Purity is not about following a list of rules so that you’ll avoid hell. It’s about wanting heaven for the person you love.”

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16. “Without question, purity is beautiful. We’re not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your dignity and worth.”

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17. “When a culture of ladies arises, a culture of gentlemen will follow.”

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18. “Women are not thousands of temptations to hell. They are thousands of reminders of the beauty of heaven.”

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19. “Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.”

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20. “If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.”

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21. “When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, and goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.”

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22. “Because of my value, I veil myself... If I show too much, I wouldn’t be revealing my true worth to you. I’d be distracting you from what matters most.”

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23. “Friends with benefits are neither.”

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24. “Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man to treat your daughter one day. By listening to your conscience in this way, you’ll have a good idea of where to draw the line.”

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25. “If your heart says, “Maybe I shouldn’t be doing this,” listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.”

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26. “The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.”

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27. “Women, be radiant on your wedding day. But make sure your soul matches your dress.”

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28. “The woman is seen as the seductress, the occasion of sin. But in John Paul’s mind, lust is a problem of the heart, not the body. Blaming the body for lust is a loophole to avoid the true issue: our hearts.104 If every woman clothed herself from head to toe, lust would remain. Put differently, a thief does not become a philanthropist when jewels are locked away. The cause of theft is not the jewels in the window of the store but the greed in the heart of the robber.”

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29. “You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.”

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30. “Look at a crucifix. This is how I got my bride to heaven. How else do you think you will get yours there?”

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31. “Girls... only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.”

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32. “After every temptation you will be either closer to God or further from Him.”

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33. “The body itself is pure. It is very good, but often a person’s intentions are not. Therefore, the problem with immodesty is not that it reveals too much, but that it obscures the value of the person. Modesty, then, is not about hiding one’s body but about revealing one’s worth. It is an invitation to contemplation. It conceals certain parts of the body not because they are bad, but in order to invite others to discover one’s full value as a person, thus opening a way toward love.”

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34. “When you feel far from God and far from everything that you wanted to be for Him, realize that you still have your whole future to give Him.”

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35. “Girls tend to get seduced through their ears. Guys tend to get seduced through their eyes.”

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36. “If you sincerely want to know if you’re “going too far,” don’t ask yourself, “Is this bad?” Instead ask yourself, “Is this pure?””

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37. “Even as you seek a virtuous, fair, and good spouse,... it is fitting that you should be the same. – Saint Bernardino of Siena.”

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38. “If by how you dress, you are saying to guys, “Hey, look at my body,” why would a guy want to get to know you?”

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39. “If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately.”

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40. “If you are currently in a relationship in which you are also willing to ‘do anything to make him happy,’ even at your own expense, I want you to stop reading our book. Mark this page, close the book, and hit yourself over the head with it. Then continue reading.”

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41. “Only falsehood wraps itself in a flood of words. Truth is brief.”

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42. “The wife must love her husband as if there were no other man in the world, in much the same way as the husband should love her as if no other woman existed.”

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43. “For starters, a guy cannot be considered a man unless he treats a woman with dignity.”

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44. “We ought to be moved to choose the good not simply through a cold and gritty decision driven by our intellect or our will, but also by our heart.”

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