Best 302 quotes in «purity quotes» category

We’ (Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have natural and spontaneous forgiveness; we do not have to maintain forgiveness. To maintain forgiveness requires effort. To do an effort is not (True) Knowledge. Forgiveness is a natural attribute of the ultimate state (of enlightenment). There is natural and spontaneous forgiveness (of the enlightened one) since the last two or three lives. There is pure love in natural and spontaneous forgiveness.

When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.

When you're traumatized, your sense of self, your individuality, is beaten up. Your skin color, your background, your pain, your hope, your gender, your faith, it's all defiled. Those essential pieces of yourself are stolen. You, as a person, are emptied and flattened, and that violence, that theft, keeps you from embodying a life that feels like your own. To continue to exist, as a whole person, you need to re-create, for yourself, an identity untouched by everything that's been used against you. You need to imagine and build a self out of elements that are not tainted. You need to remake yourself on your own terms.

Whoever loves God, pray for purity.

Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.

We have local churches where we meet together as believers. We no longer go to Mount Sinai to meet God. Why not? Because the place of the tabernacle and the temple is now replaced by the body—your body and mine—in which God meets with us and God dwells with us, and where we have communion with Him. When we come to the church now, we don’t come to the sanctuary; we bring our sanctuaries with us. This individual entity is the locus of appointment between God and me. There He meets. There He dwells. Will the God who went to such pains to physically decorate the tabernacle and the temple not also take great care in physically designing the human body?

Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding.

Where there is darkness, there once was light.

With a pure heart, the one who sincerely wants to know only the Soul and does not want any worldly comforts; the enlightened one (Gnani Purush) will come to him & his work will be done. A pure heart is required.

With prayer, we shall keep our heart pure.

Your purity is not based on what you've done with your body. It's based on what Jesus did with His.

You two had something that had to be kept on ice, yes, incorruptible, yes!--and death was the only icebox where you could keep it....

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Who makes you see others as being guilty? The inner enemies, anger-pride-deceit-greed within you, do that. How did anger-pride-deceit-greed enter within you? Through the belief, ‘I am Chandulal’. When that belief is removed, they all will leave.

Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.

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

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

Behave simply and hold on to purity.

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

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

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

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision

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

As you engage your mind in the scriptures, your mind will become pure.

Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

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.

He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

If you came to see the truth, the purity, it's here inside a lonely heart.

If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.

I have a purity ring.

I have never been able to let Iraq go. It is a part of me. Even under Saddam Hussein, even despite what the country went through, and despite how violent and tribal it can be, there is still a certain purity to the kindness of the population.

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.

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

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

I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.

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

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