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Quotes About Purity

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
~ St. Jerome
A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
~ Aeschylus
Actually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage.
~ Brian Littrell
I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.
~ Linda D. Thompson
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
~ Black Elk
By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.
~ Gautama Buddha
The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.
~ Jack W. Hayford
O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.
~ Ephrem the Syrian
You have to wipe yourself down, to stay clean. If ya' girl clean, and ya' thoughts clean, wipe 'em down. Wipe 'em down man.
~ Lil Boosie
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.
~ Sakya Pandita
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
~ Denis Diderot
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
~ Pope John Paul II
Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
~ Thomas Brooks
The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
~ C. S. Lewis
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
~ Hippocrates
In an honest man there is always something of a child.
~ Plato
The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
~ William Howard Taft
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred
~ C. S. Lewis
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
~ Gautama Buddha
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
~ Louisa May Alcott