Purity Quotes - Page 6

• Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Difficult

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• My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Strength, Heart

  "Sir Galahad" l. 3 (1842)

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• Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.

  Thomas Otway

  Women, Believe, Angel

  'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337

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• You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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• Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

  George Washington

  Country, Foundation, Moral

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.62, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Hatred

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• Use your mind to discriminate. Choose to advance yourself, to bring more purity into your being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Use

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• Seek to advance your fortunes in this world. Set up a strong base so that you can practice your spirituality and be of service to others. This is purity to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Practice

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• As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ease, Body

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• These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Music, Men, Pigs

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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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• You must every day make higher ground. You must deny yourself to make progress with God. You must refuse every- thing that is not pure and holy. God wants you pure in heart. He wants you to have an intense desire after holiness... Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Heart, Two, Higher Ground

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

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• Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Action, Violent, Purification

  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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• The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Men, Absence

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• A family is not built just by marrying a woman and producing children. Family is built with a timeless sacrifice which must represent purity, unity, standard of ethics, righteousness, grace, dignity, divinity and principles.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Children

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• Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision

  Suze Orman

  Clarity, Cleanliness, States

  Suze Orman (2007). “Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny”, p.53, Spiegel & Grau

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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Character, Sisterhood

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.

  David Jeremiah

  Wisdom, Heart

  David Jeremiah (2015). “What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do”, p.170, David C Cook

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• Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up so that God may work with it without impediment to the happiness of the spiritual entity.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

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• Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

  Joshua Harris

  Obedience, Happens, Accidents

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.107, Multnomah

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• Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

  John Piper

  Self, Mind, Satisfaction

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• Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Essence, Simplicity

  John Wesley (1830). “The works of the rev. John Wesley”, p.273

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• He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

  Christopher Moore

  Problem

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• It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh

  Mark Lawrence

  Flesh, Spirit, Corruption

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.22, Penguin

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