Pure Quotes - Page 11

• The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to heal....So you should not fear tragedy and suffering. Like love, they make you more a part of the human family. From them can come your greatest creativity. They are the fire that burns you pure.

  Kent Nerburn

  Creativity, Fire, Like Love

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• May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Love, Sweet, Agony

  George Eliot (1900). “Armgart: The Spanish Gypsy, and Other Poems”

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• There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.

  Kenny Smith

  Truth, Self, Historical

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• May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

  Cyprian

  Christian, White, Catholic

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• I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Catholic, Teeth, May

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• To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Knowing, Giving

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• Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility, that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life, love Him as you loved Hitn and serve Him in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Religious, Jesus

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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• In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

  Pope John Paul II

  Catholic, Soul, Action

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• We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Catholic, Purity And Love, Our Actions

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• A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity.

  John Vianney

  Eye, Angel, Sunshine

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• The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

  John Vianney

  Beautiful, Rose, Heaven

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• If you learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve him with a wholly pure and detached heart, then you can join with your whole soul in singing the jubilant song of the holy Virgin, “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. For he has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” And like little St. Thérèse you will be able to say at the end, “I do not regret that I have given myself to love.”

  Edith Stein

  Regret, Heart, Catholic

  "The Hidden Life: Hagiographic Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Texts".

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• No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Men, Idiot

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow

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• I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul. Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever known.

  Hafez

  Inspirational, Christian, Buddhist

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• Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Years, Dancing

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• I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of the koan, this one is not different from myself. I know this mountain because I am this mountain, I can feel it breathing at this moment, as its grass tops stray against the snows. If the snow leopard should leap from the rock above and manifest itself before me - S-A-A-O! - then in that moment of pure fright, out of my wits, I might truly perceive it, and be free.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Time, Nature, Rocks

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.89, Shambhala Publications

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• The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.

  Ken Wilber

  Time, Self, Forever

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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• The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

  Victor Hugo

  Passion, Heart, Heroic

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Dirty, Naughty, Pie

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.15

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• My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological.

  Chris Abani

  Religious, Historical, Identity

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• Laughing is such a pure and natural thing I try to laugh every day. Think that's one of the most important things in life.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Thinking, Things In Life, Laughing

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• The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Men, Helping, Invention

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• I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

  John Pople

  Branches, Modern, Scientist

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• Man as a pure animal does not exist

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.67, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.

  Sarada Devi

  Two, Mind, Doe

  "Women Saints Of East And West: Sri Sarada Devi (The Holy Mother) Birth Centenary Memorial", RamaKrishna Vedanta Centre, (p. 119), 1955.

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