"Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. It ensures the will's mastery over instincts and keeps desires within the limits of what is honorable. The temperate person directs the sensitive appetites toward what is good and maintains a healthy discretion: "Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart." Temperance is often praised in the Old Testament: "Do not follow your base desires, but restrain your appetites." In the New Testament it is called "moderation" or "sobriety." We ought "to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world." - CCC 1809

“Chastity is the successful integration of sexuality within the person...it includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery, which is a training in human freedom...The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy.” - CCC 2337-2339

“These men endure sufferings beyond number, they use many means to build their strength, they sweat constantly as they train... in a word, they discipline themselves in order that their whole life prior to the contest is but a preparation for it... How then can we, who have been promised rewards so wondrous in number and in splendour that no tongue can recount them (eternal life), even think of winning them if we do nothing other than spend our lives in leisure and make but half-hearted efforts" - St. Basil