Purity Quotes

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.

Behave simply and hold on to purity.

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

I can't help but wonder why we, as Christ professing young women so easily submit our minds and emotions to an industry that openly mocks the purity and righteousness of our Heavenly Prince.

True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races.

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.

You mean was an instant of my purity worth a lifetime of your lies?

Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan—making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.

A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation.