Purity And Love Quotes

• He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Gratitude, Buddhist

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• Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Catholic, Chaste

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• Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

  John Henry Newman

  Catholic, Soul, And Love

  John Henry Newman, James Tolhurst (1849). “Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations”, p.63, Gracewing Publishing

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• Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.

  Philip Neri

  Fall, Humility, Men

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• At the root of all this is purity. Where there is purity there love grows. When purity and love come together, there is bliss.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Roots, Together, And Love

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

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Lust, Habit

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• God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Our Actions, Intention

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• The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Heart, Light

  'The Bride of Abydos' (1813) canto 1, st. 6

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• He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

  Venerable Bede

  Love, Faith, Christian

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• A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Heart, Giving

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• The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Men, Earth

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.512, Delphi Classics

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• The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

  John Vianney

  Men, Catholic, Use

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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, Our Actions, Speak

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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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• Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of man is chastity, which is called honesty, and the observance of it, honor and also integrity; and its contrary is called corruption; in short, it has this peculiar excellence above the other virtues, that it preserves both soul and body fair and unspotted.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Beautiful, Honesty, Integrity

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• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

  David O. McKay

  Religious, Stars, Kindness

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• In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Evil, Catholic, Flesh

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• Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

  Pope Clement I

  Catholic, Lust, Tongue

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• The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this!

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Lying, Giving, Perfect

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• Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

  Saint Augustine

  Blessed, Heart, Men

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• There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

  Saint Augustine

  Powerful, Passion, Sleep

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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 temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Spiritual, Temptation, Catholic

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2012). “Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year”, p.295, TAN Books

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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, Body

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