Quotes About Purity

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

She seemed like a nightmare of Lucy as she lay there, the pointed teeth, the blood stained, voluptuous mouth, which made one shudder to see, the whole carnal and unspirited appearance, seeming like a devilish mockery of Lucy's sweet purity.

In fact, it's hard to find an arena of public life where the innocence formula isn't a factor, providing a fast and easy shortcut to both purity and superiority.

She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Those things were for the whites, not the blacks.

He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.

The price of purity is purists.

This is not the true meaning of jihad," he spoke into the starless dark. "Jihad is the holy war we have within ourselves. That is the meaning below the surface. Our internal struggle for purity," he said with emphasis, pressing his forefinger into his chest. "It is the war of ascendance over our basal instincts. It has absolutely nothing to do with others. The only thing we can have control over is ourselves.

The cat's sophisticated personae are masks of an advanced theatricality. Priests and god its own cult, the cat follows a code of ritual purity, cleaning itself religiously. Priest and god of its own cult, the car sacrifices to itself and may share its ceremonies with the elect. [...] The cat is the least Christian inhabitant of the entire home.

Hide the ideas," he wrote, "but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden."2 To accomplish this required great focus and economy of means on the part of the director, a rigorous and austere quest for purity of expression. "Everything should not be shown, or there is no art; art lies in suggestion. . . . Mystery should be preserved; since we live in mystery, mystery should be on the screen."3 He proposes several ways to achieve this end.

My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure, said Carrot. Really? Well, there's eleven of them.

T]he princesses were beautiful as the day is long and so noble they, they could pee through a dozen mattresses-

You cannot have both. Riches and purity do not match. Humility hates pride." He paced in a circle. "You have been warned.

Deeds done from bad motives remain everlastingly tainted.

By oneself is evil done, by oneself is one made impure. By oneself is evil undone, by oneself is one made pure. Each one is responsible for purity and impurity. No one can cleanse another.

All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.

I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall. That place among the rocks—is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have. — Theodore Roethke, from "In a Dark Time," The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke . (Anchor Books January 10, 1975) Originally published 1961.

I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

vow to speak purely and lovingly. When my mouth is fragrant with right speech, a flower blooms in the garden of my heart.

Often our perceptions are incorrect. We get in touch with an object and think that it embodies love, happiness, a self, or purity. We tend to think that love is something sentimental that will fill the emptiness inside us. We blame our suffering on another person or group, or on bad luck, but outside conditions are not the reason it appears. Our suffering was already there.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. I'm proud to say I was the first to stop running.

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD. (Proverbs 16:2)