Impurity Quotes

• Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Purity

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• The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Light, Grace

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Mornings and Evenings with Spurgeon”, p.301, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Spiritual, Humility, Maturity

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.372, Harper Collins

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• But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Perfection, Absolutes

  William Shakespeare (1856). “The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with additional notes”, p.99

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• Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

  John Milton

  Trials, World, Innocence

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12

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• Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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• The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

  Epictetus

  Soul, Judgment, Purification

  "The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings".

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• Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Lust, Purity And Love

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• Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

  Eileen Caddy

  Empty Vessels, Tears, Flow

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• Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

  Georges Bernanos

  Punishment, Doe, Needs

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.126, Da Capo Press

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• Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Blessed, Suffering

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• If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Life, Christian, Jesus

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• You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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• Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Soul, Together, Body

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

  John Milton

  Christian, Evil, Vices

  John Milton (2016). “Areopagitica and Other Prose Works”, p.13, Courier Dover Publications

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• I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

  John Milton

  Running, Race, Dust

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath. What steps did the young Israelite take to overthrow the giant? He struck him in the middle of the forehead with a pebble from his sling. If we regard the Philistine as representing evil and all its powers: heresy, impurity, pride, we can consider the little stones from the sling capable of overthrowing the enemy as symbolizing the Aves of the Rosary.

  Columba Marmion

  Pride, Evil, Enemy

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• We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Practice, Catholic, Dresses

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• In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Sight, Mystery

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1759, Delphi Classics

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• My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.

  Euripides

  Heart, Hands, Clean

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• Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purity, Accepting

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• Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

  Georges Bernanos

  Nostalgia, Obsession, Purity

  Georges Bernanos (2000). “Monsieur Ouine”, p.213, U of Nebraska Press

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• The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because we have studied its ways and adapted ourselves to it. We are relevant when we reject the world outright and are its polar opposite! This present darkness provides a great opportunity for the church to be the salt of the earth, but if we mix with the very impurities we are supposed to expose... we are as useless as our culture already believes us to be.

  Paul Washer

  Believe, Biblical, Opportunity

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• ...if you wish to get pure air into your room, or if you go for a walk in the fresh air, think of the pure and of the unclean heart. Many of us like to have pure air in the room (and this is an excellent habit), or are fond of walking in the fresh air, but they do not even think of the necessity of the purity of the spirit or heart (of, so to say, spiritual air, the breath of life); and, living in the fresh air, they allow themselves to indulge in impure thoughts, impure movements of the heart, and even impurity of language, and most impure carnal actions.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Spiritual, Heart

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• How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Vegetables, Vitamins And Minerals

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