Purity Quotes - Page 3

• When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Triumph, Crowns, Clean

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• Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

  Simone Weil

  Power, Contemplating, Defilement

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mad, Mind

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

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Lust, Purity And Love

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• Spend time with spiritual friends, those who seek light. Purity is gained through strength.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Light

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• Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Religious, Believe, Men

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Couple, Heart, Humility

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• Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Vow, Capacity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• The stream is always purer at its source.
  [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]

  Blaise Pascal

  Source, Streams

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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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• What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Depressing, Art

  Notes d'un peintre (Notes of a Painter, 1908) in Dominique Fourcade crits et propos sur l'art (1972) p. 30

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• Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

  Georges Bernanos

  Punishment, Doe, Needs

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.126, Da Capo Press

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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, Purity And Love

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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, Purity And Love

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• Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.

  Brad Warner

  Suicide, Hope, War

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.89, New World Library

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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 stream is always purer at its source.

  Blaise Pascal

  Source, Streams

  "Lettres Provinciales". IV, 1657.

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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, Purity And Love

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• Purity is very fragile when it takes physical manifestation. It is very, very strong in its original aspect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Aspect

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• Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

  David Hare

  Truth, Masculine And Feminine, Honor

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• The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kissing, Hands, Sick

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.150, OUP Oxford

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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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• Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Humility, Catholic, Granted

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• The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

  Jean Paul

  Men, Golden, Lost

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