Best 302 quotes in «purity quotes» category

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

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.

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

Maybe the gruffness and anger can be done with a purity of sound.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

My hair is pure. It stands for purity because no foreign chemicals or substances has ever touched my hair.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

Purity comes from Seva... it comes from selfless love.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

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

Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

The anti-equality right wing has interests. 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.

Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.

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

The Buddha said that all conscious beings possess an enlightened nature. Because of that, we have this natural purity, peacefulness and power. We can rest the mind naturally because we are already in possession of these qualities. If one can rest the mind naturally, that's the best meditation.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths

The scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity.

The one common thread is purity. I created a look that highlights the innate beauty of the face from the eyes to the lip to clear, shiny skin.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Temple going is for the purification of the soul.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

There is only a single step between impurity and purity.

This purity is attained through conquering the passions.

The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]

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

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.

Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.

To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts.

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.

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.