Impure Thoughts Quotes

• If your mind is filled with the Word of God, then it can't be filled with impure thoughts.

  David Jeremiah

  Mind, Filled, Word Of God

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• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Emotional, Sides, Lift You Up

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• Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

  William O. Douglas

  Yesterday, History, Democracy

  "Kingsley Books, Inc. v. Brown, 354 U.S. 436". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 24, 1957.

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• An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Rain, Passion

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• Sexual immorality and impure thoughts violate the standard established by the Savior. We were warned at the beginning of this dispensation that sexual immorality would be perhaps the greatest challenge. Such conduct will, without repentance, cause a spiritual drought and loss of commitment.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Spiritual, Commitment, Loss

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• Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.

  Athenaeus

  Heart, Men, Mind

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• The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Prayer, Evil, Temptation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 214), 1895.

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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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• That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to someone. to be reassured or perhaps I needed to confess my sin: I was once again having impure thoughts about saving the world. Or it was neither of these - I was afraid I was dreaming.

  Daniel Quinn

  Dream, World, Saving

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.28, Bantam

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• When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.

  Fidel Castro

  Girl, Father, Boys

  "The Atheist's Bible". Book by Joan Konner, 2007.

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• If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.

  Mary McCarthy

  Prayer, Lying, Character

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• Hell hath no fury like a frustrated fundamentalist whose God condemned him to "hell" for having "impure thoughts."

  Michael R. Burch

  Hell Hath No Fury, Political, Frustrated

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• Christianity is not about not swearing. It’s not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it’s not about not at all. Christianity is about Jesus.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Christianity, Swearing

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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