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Quotes About Purity

They that know no evil will suspect none.
~ Ben Johnson
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
~ William Shakespeare
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
~ Hugh Blair
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.
~ Bible
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
~ Italian proverb
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
~ Pamela Hansford Johnson
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.
~ Bible
We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.
~ E. M. Bounds
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
~ Bill Vaughan
Repentance is for little children.
~ Adolf Eichmann
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
~ Rimy de Gourmont
To be simple is to be great.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
~ G. K. Chesterton
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.
~ Jon Franklin
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
~ Francis Bacon
Purity is obscurity.
~ Ogden Nash
Their bodies were like corpses ready for embalming, from which all innards likely to rot had already been removed. Superfluous emotions like curiosity, fear and lust for gossip or excitement had been shed along with the useless flesh and excess fat. Javer once said that Granny Shano could as easily have grabbed the ear of Benito Mussolini himself as the Italian officer's.
~ Ismail Kadare
He who is not delicate flower of your soul to the winds of temptation, whatever it whole and saved and passed on to the end, it's as if it never had.
~ Ivo Andri?
Možda revolucije ra?aju ?udovišta? -Jeste, ali one se za?inju u veli?ini i moralnoj ?istoti, ali ra?aju ?udovišta.
~ Ivo Andri?
I've eliminated everything else. This is what's left. And when you've eliminated everything else, what's left should be true.
~ J.D. Robb
How do you suppose they know the sheep are virgins?
~ J.D. Robb
You've got a knack for the dead and the innocent.
~ J.D. Robb