logo

Quotes About Purity

The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters.
~ Milan Kundera
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test, (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
~ Milan Kundera
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
~ Milan Kundera
Without holiness you cannot talk of God.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Couples should keep their love pure before it poisons the purest love of all - that between them and their children
~ Siddharth Katragadda
Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.
~ Umberto Eco
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
~ Walter Savage Landor
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
My love admits no qualifying dross
~ William Shakespeare
My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
~ William Shakespeare
Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
~ William Shakespeare
While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.
~ William Wordsworth
I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.
~ Anna Chlumsky
Love and lies can corrupt even the purest heart.
~ Cassandra Clare
The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again
~ Charles Finch
Love me...I am not evil.
~ Christopher Pike
Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.
~ Deepak Chopra
There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?
~ Djuna Barnes
Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.
~ E. M. Forster
Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.
~ Frederick Lenz
The final entrance into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, into nirvana, God-realization, when you become the absolutely best friend of God, can only come when your love is completely pure.
~ Frederick Lenz
It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.
~ Ilyas Kassam