Quotes About Purity

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

We must live a holy life if we want to pray.

Holiness is not some nebulous thing. It's a series of right choices. You needn't wait for some holy cloud to form around you. You'll be holy when you choose not to sin. You're already free from the power of sexual immorality; you are not yet free from the habit of sexual immorality, until you choose to be—until you say, "That's enough! I'm choosing to live purely!

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

Virgins can't die. Their hymens are like armor.

Very young children don't have the intermediary of language—they don't have a sign in place of the thing. They "see and hear in the old way.

Innocence is only a virtue, lass, when it is temporary. You must pass from it to look back and recognize its unsullied purity. To remain innocent is to twist beneath invisible and unfathomable forces all your life, until one day you realize that you no longer recognize yourself, and it comes to you that innocence was a curse that had shackled you, stunted you, defeated your every expression of living.

A man does not marry a girl, nor a woman. He marries a promise, and it shines with a bright purity that is ageless. It shines, in other words, with the glory of lies. The deception is self inflicted. The promise was simple in its form, as befitted the thick-headedness of young men, and in its essence it offered the delusion that the present moment was eternal; that nothing would change; not the fires of desire, not the flesh itself, not the intense look in the eye.

I may be inexperienced, but at least I come with a clean heart and a clean slate.

I do like to have a clean slate, especially when you're in indie film.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't do nothing, bro.

My experience and what I do in snowboarding is really quite independent of the industry and the more independent it is, the more pure and better I feel about snowboarding.

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

It was in the mosque that al-Zarqawi first discovered Salafism, a doctrine that in its contemporary form advocates a return to theological purity and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad. Salafists deem Western-style democracy and modernity not only fundamentally irreconcilable with Islam, but the main pollutants of the Arab civilization

La foiblesse de nostre condition, fait que les choses en leur simplicité et pureté naturelle ne puissent pas tomber en nostre usage... Nostre extreme volupté a quelque air de gemissement, et de plainte.

It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray. But maybe those were the best kind.

Pure things give off positive energy; impure things don't.

Druga ?wie?o?? to nonsens! ?wie?o?? bywa tylko jedna - pierwsza, i tym razem ostatnia.

A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

How goodness heightens beauty!