Purity Quotes - Page 2

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

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

What power is higher than the power of purity?

How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!

Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder.

The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.

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

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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.

We want his power more than his purity.

Peace of heart is the natural outcome of purity of heart.

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

Learn from the purity of nature.