Pure Quotes

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

The innermost core is witnessing, awareness, watchfulness. You can call it anything, but it will be another meaning of witnessing. Truth is pure awareness.

She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

Truth is pure awareness.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological.

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.

Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.

Don’t be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

I have a passion for fast cars. To drive them means pure joy to me.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.

Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell.

Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.