Purity Quotes

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

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

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

The Uruguayans have a sort of purity. I don't know where they got it, and I doubt even if they know from where they got it. Perhaps they didn't kill off their major population.

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort.

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'

There is only a single step between impurity and purity.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.

Be purity of life the test, leave to the heart, to heaven the rest.

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

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).

It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.

You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.

Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.

The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.

Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility, because I was quite egotistical, I thought I was quite wonderful.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.

Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.