Purifying Quotes - Page 2

• Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.

  Sharon Gannon

  Karma, Yoga, Practice

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

  Agnes Repplier

  Laughter, Spring, Heart

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Ambition, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.229, Oxford University Press

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• That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

  Hosea Ballou

  Men, Soul, He Man

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• What does a lamp do? The lamp is like a horse that is running but stays put. But by virtue of being a lamp it illuminates the space around it. Therefore, the practice of purifying one's soul, of living virtuously, has tremendous impacts upon the ethics of the surrounding society.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Running, Horse, Impact

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual, that change starts with the individual. I think it is really about purifying your own actions, and I have seen that in my own life.

  Karan Bajaj

  Buddhism, Thinking, Objective Truth

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

  Eyvind Kang

  Healing, Water, Baptism

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Fruit, Praise

  Charles Spurgeon (2014). “The Sermon on the Mount”, p.38, Ravenio Books

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• Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Love Is, Voice

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• I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Army, Government

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• It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Eye, Pride

  John Wesley (2012). “The Works of the REV. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author, Volume 12...”, p.108

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• The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.

  John Piper

  Suffering, Weakness, Purpose

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• Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.

  William Temple

  Heart, Self, Worship Music

  William Temple (1939). “Readings in St. John's Gospel ...”

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• In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

  Albert Camus

  Effort, Guilty, Virtue

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• Faith is trusting Jesus to lead us and going where He leads. What avails it to me to analyze Saratoga water, and to believe in its virtues? I must drink the water if I want its purifying power. And the soul that has not actually drunk of Christ can never be purged from sin.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Believe, Drunk

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 227, 1895.

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• I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Thinking, Elements, Great Experiences

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• In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Home, Men, Land

  "The mutual love between Allah and His servants". english.bayynat.org.lb.

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• If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Death, Thinking, Water

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.56

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• What is religion? I want to remove the chaff from the grain. For me it is not what it is for the common people. If you take away certain social customs, they think you have taken away religion. For me it means purifying it.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.

  Mark Helprin

  Love, Beautiful, Country

  Mark Helprin (2014). “A New York Winter's Tale”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Law, Punishment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again.

  David A. Bednar

  Promise, Steps, Spirit

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• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Through the Goddess we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.

  Starhawk

  Strong Women, Moving, Inspire

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.

  Alison Thompson

  Greatness, Eugenics, Blood

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