Purity Quotes - Page 34

• ...if you wish to get pure air into your room, or if you go for a walk in the fresh air, think of the pure and of the unclean heart. Many of us like to have pure air in the room (and this is an excellent habit), or are fond of walking in the fresh air, but they do not even think of the necessity of the purity of the spirit or heart (of, so to say, spiritual air, the breath of life); and, living in the fresh air, they allow themselves to indulge in impure thoughts, impure movements of the heart, and even impurity of language, and most impure carnal actions.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Spiritual, Heart

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• Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together with all the other virtuous activities... to hold our hearts free of the harm of every dangerous passion and in order to rise step by step to the high point of love.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Reading, Passion

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• The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Land, Generosity

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.11, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and admired for generations; or to write a few songs which shall sing themselves into the ears and hearts of men. But the woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

  J.R. Miller

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

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• The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Community, Mark

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• Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

  St. Jerome

  Heart, Dying, Doe

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• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sex, Sleep, Heart

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• From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve intact the stainless purity of the soul. Also in it, the old will again find repose, relief, and peace from their anxious cares. And to all those who suffer in any way, especially the dying, may it bring comfort and increase the hope of eternal happiness.

  Pope Pius XI

  Evil, Soul, Suffering

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• To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.'

  Albert Pike

  Degrees, Doctrine, May

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• Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

  Lena Dunham

  Purity And Innocence, Survivor, Demand

  "Why Lena Dunham Spoke Out About Her Rape So Many Years After It Happened" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. December 10, 2014.

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• You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

  J. K. Rowling

  Blood, Potters, Matter

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• Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.

  Rich Lowry

  Country, Real, War

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• In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Art, Political, Black

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• There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.

  Mark Lawrence

  Struggle, Needs, Redemption

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.75, Penguin

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• The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.

  Rumi

  Jealous, Angel, Mirrors

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• Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

  Georges Bernanos

  Nostalgia, Obsession, Impurity

  Georges Bernanos (2000). “Monsieur Ouine”, p.213, U of Nebraska Press

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• ... there was purity and there was the dream, and the adventure, and there was the counterculture aspect. It was like shove society, shove the nine to five, shove the rules ... we're just going to follow our hearts, treat each other well, eat well, and enjoy the ocean. It was not for money and it wasn't for fame ... that's what we're gonna do ... purely because that's what our hearts want to do. That was amazing.

  Jim Banks

  Dream, Ocean, Heart

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• Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fire, Light, Elements

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.

  A. L. Rowse

  Morning, Spring, School

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• There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Broken, Frost

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Summer in the soul; or, Views and experiences”, p.215

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• As for myself, I look upon all women as my Mother. This is a very pure attitude of mind. There is no risk or danger in it. To look upon a woman as one's sister is also not bad. But the other attitudes are very difficult and dangerous. It is almost impossible to keep to the purity of the ideal.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Mother, Attitude

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• Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Forever, Body, Forget

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.247, Cambridge University Press

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• God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Fitting, Should, Virgins

  "Mary for Earth and Heaven" by William McLaughlin, p. 115-116, 2002.

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• The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

  Alexander Pope

  Convince Us, Water, Mind

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.378

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• Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Wings, Two

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

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