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Quotes About Pure

Be praised, my Lord, through sister water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.
~ Francis of Assisi
Bertrand Russell wrote about the beauty of mathematical science: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
~ Frank Schaeffer
I'm so storming pure I practically belch rainbows.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Radicalism is the party of the spirit whose ideas erect signposts to eternity and, in every situation, remind the conscience of the future. It scorns the conditioned and limited, small things and steps, restraint, discretion, and unconsciousness. It is joyful, but only towards what is great; it is reverent, but only towards what is powerful. It is pure and, therefore, self-righteous; principled and, therefore, repressive; fanatical and, therefore, destructive.
~ Helmuth Plessner
Jesus goes up onto the mountain, gathers his disciples around him, and says: "How blessed are the poor, the gentle, those who mourn, those who hunger and thirst for uprightness, the merciful, the pure of heart, the peacemakers, and those who are persecuted in the cause of uprightness." These words present a portrait of the child of God. It is a self-portrait of Jesus, the Beloved Son.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Temptations and struggles will remain to the end of our lives, but with a pure heart we will be restful even in the midst of a restless existence.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to— for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well— is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps you can visualize him saying a thing like that! Myself it's not clear what his idea of me was, or at any rate, it's clear that I was just pure idea, an idea that kept itself alive without food.
~ Henry Miller
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied research; to me, it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature.
~ William Shockley
Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'
~ Alex Gibney
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
~ John Lydon
Love gives us the perfect, pure, and sweetest joy of life.
~ Debasish Mridha
Oh my love, pure and divine love, I want to drown in youand then get lost, to find myself again and again, as a symbol and source of love, pure, blissful and divine.
~ Debasish Mridha
Kindness is the universal language of pure love, so let us express ourselves with kindness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Let my heart feel the joy, see the beauty, all around me.Still it may be in pure agony.
~ Debasish Mridha
You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love is pure, perfect, precise, and precious.
~ Debasish Mridha
Pure love is an unmediated, unmitigated, and unrevealing, but everlasting source of joy for the giver and for the receiver.
~ Debasish Mridha
Forever and always from me to you. My love is pure, my love is true. It is gifted to none other than you.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
Love, gratitude, compassion, and kindness are the sources of all enduring, pure happiness.
~ Debasish Mridha
The heaven I witnessed was so pure, love-filled, and magnificent that I did not want to return to earth.
~ Mary C. Neal
It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.
~ Sienna Miller
For Loveliness, Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most
~ Stephen Arnott
In the Logic, Hegel states that this 'unity' of thought and being constitutes the 'element' or 'principle' of logic.7 Logic thus starts from the idea that being is known by pure thought to be intelligible to pure thought.
~ Stephen Houlgate