Quotes About Purity

The floor was strewn with loose straw. Everything was scrupulously clean

Hospice nursing is the purest kind of nursing you can do, and every day you are reminded that you walk on holy ground in preparing God's children for heaven. Hospice nursing is very intimately participating in the kingdom of God that Jesus spoke about.

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

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.

Cuando la naturaleza femenina, naturalmente tan perversa, se sublima en la santidad, entonces acierta a convertirse en el más elevado vehículo de la gracia.

Qu'est-ce qui vous effraie le plus dans la pureté? — La hâte.

Nothing pretextual is holy.

me había topado con la afirmación de Carpócrates según la cual, para liberarnos de la tiranía de los ángeles, señores del cosmos, es necesario perpetrar toda clase de ignominias, saldando todas las deudas que hemos contraído con el universo y con nuestro cuerpo, porque sólo cometiendo todos los actos el alma puede liberarse de sus pasiones y reencontrar la pureza originaria.

What terrifies you most in purity, I asked? Haste, William answered. -- The Name of the Rose, Fifth Day, Nones

Qué hermoso era el espectáculo de la naturaleza aún no tocada por el saber, a menudo perverso, del hombre! Vi

Stacy hated people who abused digital systems. It affronted her that they had fatally undermined the fundamental beauty and purity of the internet. They'd corrupted the most revolutionary invention of the twentieth century and turned it into an engine for triviality, for vitriol, for scamming...

He had never killed a child; he had never arrested anyone. But he had broken the fragile dyke that protected the purity of his soul from the seething darkness around him. The blood of the camps and the ghettos had gushed over him and carried him away... There was no longer any divide between him and the darkness; he himself was part of the darkness.

Mornings are fresh like babies, uncontaminated by events. I find them sad for that reason. They're too fragile and naïve.

No corruption is possible with the diamond.

Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.

Es que tiene en el alma una perla, la inocencia; y las perlas no se disuelven en el fango. [...] Se revuelca en estiércol y sale de él recubierto de estrellas.

Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as dazzling innocence, going on her way, and holding in her hand, all unconsciousness, the key of a paradise.

The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.

This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.

That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader.

Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes.

La fuerza más fuerte de todas es un corazón inocente.

Toat? f?ptura Cosettei era naivitate, nevinov??ie, transparen??, alb, candoare, str?lucire. S-ar fi putut spune despre Cosette c? e un cer limpede. R?spândea o prospeÈ›ime de aprilie È™i zori de zi. În ochii ei era rou?. Cosette era o întrupare a luminii aurorei în chip de femeie.