Quotes About Purity

Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort, the di- adem of thought. By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends. By the aid of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confu- sion of thought a man descends. A man may rise to high success in the world, even to lofty attitudes in the spiritual realm, and again descend into weakness and wretchedness by allowing arrogant, selfish, and corrupt thoughts to take possession of him.

Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body. Out of a defiled mind proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body.

one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow—sure.

Strong, pure, and happy thoughts build up the body in vigour and grace.

Your true wealth is your stock of virtue, and your true power the uses to which you put it. Rectify your heart, and you will rectify your life. Lust, hatred, anger, vanity, pride, covetousness, self-indulgence, self-seeking, obstinacy,- all these are poverty and weakness; whereas love, purity, gentleness, meekness, compassion, generosity, self-forgetfulness, and self-renunciation,- all these are wealth and power.

Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure. Change

Thought is the fountain of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain (source) pure, and all will be pure

only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

Suffering ceases for him who is pure.

Even at birth the soul comes to its own and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage it attracts those combinations of conditions which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own purity and, impurity, its strength and weakness. Men

He who each day accomplishes some victory over himself, who subdues and puts behind him some unkind thought, some impure desire, some tendency to sin, is everyday growing stronger, purer, and wiser, and every dawn finds him nearer to that final glory of Truth which each self-sacrificing act reveals in part.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

I guess it takes a holy man to make a girl a real whore.

but is simplicity enough?

All that we can do with any spiritual discipline is produce within ourselves something of the silence, the humility, the detachment, the purity of heart and the indifference which are required if the inner self is to make some shy, unpredictable manifestation of his presence.11

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

The attention is to be kept pure.

Innocence is the source of love.

Wisdom comes only with innocence.