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Quotes About Pure

Think about the things that are good and worthy of praise. Think about the things that are true and honorable and right and pure and beautiful and respected. —PHILIPPIANS 4:8 ICB
~ Louie Giglio
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.
~ Louis MacNeice
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
~ Louise Bogan
That fear of Acheron be sent packing which troubles the life of man from its deepest depths, suffuses all with the blackness of death, and leaves no delight clean and pure.
~ Lucretius
Wonderful, how an injection of pure speculation—never mind the questionable logic—icy-cold and colourless as a shot of opium, can deaden briefly even the worst of afflictions. Briefly.
~ John Banville
Life is suffering. Until the great day of judgement, when peace and equanimity may be restored for those who are pure of heart and deed.
~ John Boyne
I seek an incorruptible inheritance," Christian answered. "It's pure and untarnished, and it never fades.
~ John Bunyan
Integrity: The leader's life and words match. Justice: The leader rejects dishonest gain. Convictions: The leader's values won't allow him or her to accept bribes. Positive focus: The leader refuses to dwell on destructive issues. Pure: The leader disciplines his or her mind to remain clean and pure. Secure: The leader is firm, stable in his identity and source of strength. The Maxwell Leadership Bible
~ John C. Maxwell
The mind of a teacher of Latin and a reader of Greek is a queer thing. No sooner had Magnus in his justifiable indignation at her teasing ways imagined himself ravishing Curly by force in her own maiden bed, than such a blind passion of pure love for her swept over him that the blood rushed to his head and he squeezed his bony hands together.
~ John Cowper Powys
God please wash me of my sins. For my dark complexion represents the excess amounts of flaws, but my heart is pure red full of faith and love for you.
~ Unknown
Your children are the most precious gift, prime example of perfection, and clearly an accurate definition of pure; unconditional love.
~ Unknown
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
~ Edward Young
O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
~ William Shakespeare
From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire.
~ Deepak Chopra
Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
~ Dogen
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
~ Sinclair Lewis
So the bloodline wasn't pure." He shook his head. "It was an excuse, like all the other excuses. I liked my life as it was. I didn't want ties, especially the sort I'd have had with you." He looked at her with pure raging desire. "I knew if we were ever intimate, there'd be no going back. I was right. I eat, breathe, sleep and dream you, especially now, with my baby growing in your belly.
~ Diana Palmer
Silvery dancing strands that seemed the pure play of light, light as evanescent news, ideas borne on light.
~ Don DeLillo
WYATT: What kind of sound waves? DR. BAZELON: Tapes of the cries of baby mice. This sound reaches a level of forty thousand cycles per second. It's the purest thing in nature.
~ Don DeLillo
She was afraid he would turn into one of those men who make a saintliness of their resentment, shining through the years with a pure and tortured light.
~ Don DeLillo
And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.
~ Donna Tartt
I had spent dozens of hours studying the photographs as though if I stared at them long enough and longingly enough I would, by some sort of osmosis, be transported into their clear, pure silence.
~ Donna Tartt
Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.
~ Jack Ketchum
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it taste very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
~ Jack Kornfield