Pure Quotes - Page 33

• Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Eye, Light

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• If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent of God revealed to us because of our dispassion. For 'I will sing a psalm and in a pure path I will understand when Thou wilt come to me' (cf. Ps. 101:1-2). The psalm stands for virtuous conduct; understanding indicates the spiritual knowledge, gained through virtue, by means of which we perceive God's advent, when we wait for the Lord vigilant in the virtues.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

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• A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Heart, Writing

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• The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Integrity

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• When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Real, Eye

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• It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

  Richard Linklater

  Art, Entertainment, Film

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.

  Sarah Lacy

  Reality, Zuckerberg, World

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

  Ann Macbeth

  Art, Financial, Film

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• Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Moving, Challenges, Video

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• E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.

  Randall L. Stephenson

  Data, Internet Access, People

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• Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them, and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does this not involve the principle of a national establishment ... ?

  James Madison

  Religious, Law, Two

  "Concerned Catholic Paul Ryan Wants Priests to Shut Up About the Poor" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 27, 2018.

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• Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.

  Adam Young

  Letting Go, Jesus, Eye

  "Interview: Owl City's Adam Young and His God-Inspired Music". Interview with Josephine Vivaldo, www.christianpost.com. June 25, 2011.

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• Pure driving, pure racing, that´s what makes me happy.

  Ayrton Senna

  Racing, Driving, Make Me Happy

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• And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

  Donna Tartt

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Looks

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• Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

  Russell Kirk

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.41, Regnery Publishing

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• The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Information, Messages

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.

  Janet Yellen

  Care, Employment, Inflation

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• When you have become the Embodiment of Gratitude, think about how Pure the Water that fills your Body will be. When this happens, you Yourself will be a Beautiful Shining Crystal of Light.

  Masaru Emoto

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Thinking

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• It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.

  Edward Frenkel

  Secret Love, Lovers, Mathematics

  Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.139, Basic Books

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• Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

  Jack Spicer

  Loneliness

  Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser (1975). “The Collected Books of Jack Spicer”, Los Angeles : Black Sparrow Press

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• I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

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• Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Beautiful, Artist, Soul

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.

  Vance Palmer

  Book, People, Curiosity

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• For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.

  Andre Kertesz

  Photography, Memories, Careers

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