Purity Quotations

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.

I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

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

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.

For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that's a legitimate item you have there. For me, it's nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It's just not what I'm in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

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

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.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

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

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

When you try to define a purity as being something that's closed and limited, you're not talking about the music that I play called jazz.

There is no more important issue than the purity of elections in this state, ... And I will tell ... the court that the elections are not pure.

The price of purity is purists.

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

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

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

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

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

There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.

We didn't want to have a particular corporate name on it because we wanted the purity of the NASCAR name.

We didn't want to have a particular corporate name on it, because we wanted the purity of the NASCAR name.

We didn't want to have a corporate name on it, because we wanted the purity of the NASCAR name.

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

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.

One should always seek company of intelligent and the person with purity of thought.

Persons of demonic nature do not know what to do and what not to do. They neither have purity nor good conduct nor truthfulness.

Having open source or proprietary companies that refuse to work with one another from a sense of purity is a real disservice to end users.

God will not ask you when and where you did service? He will ask, with what motive did you do it? What was the intention that prompted you? You may weigh the service and boast of its quantity. But God seeks quality - the quality of heart, the purity of mind, the holiness of motive.

Humility, modesty, nonviolence, forbearance, honesty, service to guru, purity (of thought, word, and deed), steadfastness, self-control; and / Aversion towards sense objects, absence of ego, constant reflection on the agony and suffering inherent in birth, old age, disease, and death.

It blew my mind that nobody would come and see those kids play. One of the greatest attractions for me was the purity of the game they played. ... Guys who were just playing ball and having a good time before they go on to get jobs like the rest of us.

Just as True Love Waits quickly moved beyond the United States to become an international campaign, we are praying that True Love Waits Takes the Town will spread to help towns and communities find solutions to reclaiming sexual purity among students.

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.

Most folks want to believe in Armstrong, in the credibility of his courage, in the veracity of his inspiration, in the purity of his Tour de France titles. Most want to believe, but does everyone dare? We've been suckers for hearts-and-flowers icons before.

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

The question going forward is do you trade directors with 100 percent purity but facing a steep learning curve with those that are competent and seasoned board members? I would say until proven guilty, you keep working with those you have.

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

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.

I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.

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

We want his power more than his purity.

We buy the most expensive grain available growing on the best part of Russian land called black soil. We also play close attention to the purity of the water - we get it from Lake Ladoga. We store it ourselves to specific conditions. We carefully manage distillation at my distillery in Moscow.

Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper -the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

There is something about the sport that is so filmic ... there is something about the availability and the purity of these two guys who are absolutely stripped down to a very, very primal contest.

Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels, the waiting-rooms, the steamers, and even the stores, in crystal jugs or stone filters, and it is always iced. This may be either the result or the cause of the temperance of the people.

The purity of Jewish upbringing is the restrictions that one carries through life being a "nice Jewish girl" -- what a burden!

The purity of doing things to drive processor revenue is over. This is designed to drive revenue, and it's possible that they could become the No. 1 or 2 player. They may not understand the business, but they can hire people that do.

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

Earn the qualifications - holiness, purity faith and universal love - then He will approach you on foot, to console, comfort and save. If you have purity of heart and mastery over the senses, His Grace is your right.

The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.

The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.

Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.

Athletes didn't invent this stuff. We opened Pandora's box. We're still trying to figure out how to close it. It's bottomless. It's impossible to eliminate them. Let's accept it's inevitable. But don't put athletes on a moral pedestal when it's an absolute joke. Don't speak of purity and ideals. There's too much money invested in performance.

That opening bar summoned children all over the world to the television set. Its purity is its strength.

This is a dilemma that always crops up with interest groups that too narrowly define themselves on one issue or another. Do they hold politicians to a standard of purity that ends up hurting them, the interest group? Do you let perfect be the enemy of the good? That is the dilemma they face.

They raised 62,340 pennies. These kids, in all their purity and innocence, were reaching out to kids halfway around the world.

As you become aware of what has robbed you of the purity of an innocent mind, a clear heart and a strong body, you will be deeply served by letting go of those familiar limitations.

It's the purity of the fabrics, the sensuality of the look and the fact that everything's carefully hand-done.

It seemed like 30 (home runs) didn't even matter for years. So I think what's happening is great for the game. We are bringing the purity back. I know people love to see the ball hit 600 feet, but at the same time it's always nice to see a 2-1 game. That's real baseball.

Once it gets there it opens up two covers and deploys high purity materials which are then used to collect the solar wind one atom at a time.

At the root of all this is purity. Where there is purity there love grows. When purity and love come together, there is bliss (Ananda).

In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

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

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

He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument where as I like to play mine from time to time.

He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.

He sang differently when he was playing the guitar, ... There was a purity to the vocal that was more natural and less of a performance. He was less able to think about what he was singing and it sounded better.

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

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

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

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

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

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.

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.

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.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

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

All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.

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.