Purity Quotes - Page 24

• When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems to walk in blindness and yet a man works without wearying for that which he loves...only in this moment is passion truly understood

  Franz Schubert

  Memories, Passion, Heart

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• We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and Bitter Providence, John Piper does an outstanding job of bibli- cally defending key truths that the church often ignores. He gives us an example of how to take a bold and educated stand on issues of race, purity, and God's sovereignty.

  Francis Chan

  Sweet, Jobs, Keys

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• While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Sex, Motivation, Inspiration

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• None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Finding Strength, Righteousness

  Ellen G. White “Steps to Christ—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.

  Ellen G. White

  Prayer, Soul, Unbroken

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book II of III”, p.140, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  Barry Mann

  Guitar, Piano, Being Played

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• Eureka! Eureka!
  Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.

  Archimedes

  Running, Jumping, Discovery

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• Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

  John of the Cross

  Clarity, Sin, Strive

  Saint John of the Cross (1966). “The collected works”

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• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  Fisher Ames

  Language, Admirer, Reader

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• THE TOTALLY AWAKENED warrior can freely utilize all elements contained in heaven and earth. The true warrior learns how to correctly perceive the activity of the universe and how to transform martial techniques into vehicles of purity, goodness, and beauty. A warrior’s mind and body must be permeated with enlightened wisdom and deep calm.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Warrior, Heaven, Mind

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• Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Granted, Maldives

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• Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Moving, Knowledge

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• Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (1996). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mercy, Killing, Truthfulness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2649, Manonmani Publishers

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• Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Secret

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2041, Manonmani Publishers

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• Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Overcoming

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2870, Manonmani Publishers

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• Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Energy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2866, Manonmani Publishers

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• Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Patience, Perseverance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2061, Manonmani Publishers

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• The Age of Aquarius is the age of excellence in which personal purity shall absolutely matter.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Aquarius, Excellence

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• Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Success, Beautiful, Sports

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a Child of Faith. Then she came to me holding two crowns, one white, the other red. She asked me if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both.

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Mother, Children, Night

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• When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

  James A. Baldwin

  Rights, Order, Revolution

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• I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Eye, Want, Intention

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Heart, Color, Water

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• Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Wings, Two, Simplicity

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