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• Do you realize you can actually listen a person's soul into existence? Your fervent interest in the inner life of those you care for can awaken their dormant powers. The teacher Richard Moss says 'The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.' Offer this gift.

  Rob Brezsny

  Life, Teacher, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.178, Frog Books

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• Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Flow

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.274, Penguin

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• We want his power more than his purity.

  David Wilkerson

  Want

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• The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

  Hugh Blair

  Hygiene, Style, Literature

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

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• How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Men, He Man, Born

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• I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Perseverance, Kindness, Heart

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

  Jules Michelet

  Coffee, Reality, Clouds

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• Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Lying, Bhajans

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• Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Odds, Minorities, Gains

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1677, Manonmani Publishers

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• True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Contentment, Evidence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

  Theophile Gautier

  Dog, Heart, Animal

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• Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, And Love, Morality

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.203, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• 'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did he say 'strive'? Because it is not possible for us to become holy and to be saints in an hour! We must therefore progress from modest beginnings toward holiness and purity. Even were we to spend a thousand years in this life we should never perfectly attain it. Rather we must always struggle for it every day, as if mere beginners.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Struggle, Men

  Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.91, Paulist Press

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• Our world does not need to hear more people talk about God or even about Jesus if those people do not have a lifestyle that reinforces every word they utter. The interesting thing is that the closer we walk in intimacy with God, the less we have to say. Our very lives become a bold and beautiful testimony to the purity, the freedom, and the beauty of the Lord Jesus.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Beautiful, Jesus, Our World

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• If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Blood, Rivers, Lessons

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• There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Country, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.

  Alice Glass

  Children, Ideas, Honor

  "Crystal Castles". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 8, 2012.

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• Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Action

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• So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Trying, Would Be

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• The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Soul, Care, Want

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• As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we can preserve signs in their old purity. It is my hope that we will all love and guard our beautiful sign language as the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

  George Veditz

  Beautiful, Long, People

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• What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Garden, Apples, Tree

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.290

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• We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

  Lyman Abbott

  Character, Quality, Praying

  Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1904). “The Outlook”

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• As you engage your mind in the scriptures, your mind will become pure.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Scripture

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• The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation.

  Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix

  Sacrifice, Treasure, Shrines

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