Purity and chastity have been, and still are, the most great ornaments for the handmaidens of God. God is My Witness! The brightness of the light of chastity sheddeth its illumination upon the worlds of the spirit, and its fragrance is wafted even unto the Most Exalted Paradise....
(Baha’u’llah, cited in Shoghi Effendi, "The Advent of Divine Justice; The Compilation of Compilations vol. I, A Chase and Holy Life)