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Quotes About Purity

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.
~ Pope Pius XI
The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
This hand is free of blood, and this hand is free from the stain of corruption.
~ Ashraf Ghani
There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.
~ Ashwin Sanghi
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
~ Ramakrishna
That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Men are often bad, but babies never are.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.
~ Chavela Vargas
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
~ Paul the Apostle
What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?
~ Renee Vivien
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
~ Ben Jonson
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
~ Matthew Simpson
By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
~ Thomas a Kempis
To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.
~ Walter Lippmann
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
~ William Cowper
No man of God does something against the Lord
~ Chris Oyakhilome
If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.
~ Gautama Buddha
If we fill the palace with vulgar people and all kinds of junk, how can the Lord and His Court occupy it? When such a crowd is there it would be a great thing if He were to remain for even a short time.
~ Teresa of Avila
Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.
~ Terri Guillemets
Strawberries are the angels of the earth, innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward.
~ Terri Guillemets
a taint on our purity is considered among us something more terrible than any punishment and any death.
~ Tertullian