PURITY QUOTES
quotations about purity
Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.
ERIC LUDY
Meet Mr. Smith
Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.
JESUS
Matthew 5:8
Had Passion and Purity never encountered,
Tenderness had never come into the world.
RICHARD GARNETT
De Flagello Myrtes
Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind.
EMIL CIORAN
A Short History of Decay
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
MATTHEW HENRY
An Exposition of all the books of the Old and New Testaments
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.
HELEN KELLER
Optimism
Purity is the diamond of the soul.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Purity is the ability to recognize the essential nature of any form. It is the ability to distill any error that has been attached to a form whether the error is ideological, psychological, or physiological. Purity is the ability to liberate oneself patterns of error that are present in perceptual reality and instead to experience the intent of cosmic order. Purity involves being aware of the blueprint behind form. The only way one can experience the true nature of form is through the eyes of Purity.
CONNIE KAPLAN
The Invisible Garment
I am too pure for you or anyone.
SYLVIA PLATH
"Fever 103°"
But few are those who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
SRI AUROBINDO
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
BIBLE
James 1:27
Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
The Sound and the Fury
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Sir Galahad
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.
MARINA WARNER
Alone of All Her Sex
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of no secret deceit; who are the same in act as they are in desire; who conceal no thought, no tendencies of thought, from their own conscience; who are faithful and sincere witnesses, before the tribunal of their own judgments, of all that passes within their mind. Such as these shall see God.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
"Essay on Christianity"
Modesty is conscious Purity; Purity is unconscious Modesty. Modesty may be known under any veil; Purity cannot be certainly known until every veil has fallen away.
RICHARD GARNETT
De Flagello Myrtes
Simplify and purify. What better way to live your life?
TONY CURL
Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The Scarlet Letter
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
London Independent, February 4, 1990