Quotes About Purity

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

He who possesses virtue in abundanceMay be compared to an infant.

Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest are seems unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes and completes all things.

even though I knew I had a snowball's chance in Hades with you." She sniffed and wiped a tear with the back of her hand. "I just … I just wanted to give you something pure. It's all I have. Had. Everything else about me is tainted by demon blood. But I had that. And it's always been yours." -Gem to Kynan Excerpt From: Larissa Ione. "Desire Unchained." iBooks.

Face the facts. If you do not begin to pray, you will not be any further along with the Lord next year than you are right now. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change. So what will it be: business as usual or are you ready to take your next step with God? Jesus is waiting for you to pray, "Lord, make my temple a house of purity, prayer, power and perfected praise for Thy glory." He is ready to begin that divine progression in your temple right now. Are you?

Let's be honest. Chad is not an exception. Our churches have long been filled with people who claim to be Christ followers but who live like pagans. Our lives have not been all that different when it comes to things such as divorce, sexual purity, forgiving those who wrong us, loving our enemies, slander, gossip, and the harder things of discipleship.

Sempre hi ha alguna cosa bonica i fascinant en l'horror més pur.

Thoughts of course can't be dirty except for ignorance, untruth or ugliness. And why would you think about them anyway.

Men don't want candy that's been unwrapped. Maybe for a lark, but not when it comes to marriage. It may still be perfectly clean, but if it's unwrapped, they don't know where it's been.

And all of a sudden I saw that if life seems awfully petty most of the time, every now and then there is something noble and beautiful and almost pure that lifts us suddenly out of the pettiness and lets us share in it a little.

The basis for the practice of meditation is appreciation. Every breath we take is a gift, naturally pure and good. We appreciate every pebble in the riverbed, every apple on the tree. Ordinary activities are in themselves powerful and worth appreciating.

The vajrayana, or diamond vehicle, is powerful because it is derived from the tranquillity and readiness of the hinayana and the purity and soft heart of the mahayana. When students have developed those qualities, the vajrayana becomes ready to launch its diamond ship into the oceans of those who are ready for it.

It was finally all out of me... I was as pure and empty as the flames moving in front of me.

A virgin woman has saved France as a virgin man has saved all mankind. (Une pucelle a sauvé la France, - Comme Un puceau a sauvé tous les hommes.)

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

You cannot stain a black coat

And if we were not all three in fairyland, certainly I was. I lived principally on Dora and coffee. To have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition. There is no doubt whatever that I was a lackadaisical young spoony; but there was a purity of heart in all this still that prevents my having quite a contemptuous recollection of it.

Ah, how I loved her! What happiness (I thought) if we were married, and were going away anywhere to live among the trees and in the fields, never growing older, never growing wiser, children ever, rambling hand in hand through sunshine and among flowery meadows, laying down our heads on moss at night, in a sweet sleep of purity and peace, and buried by the birds when we were dead!

but such is the wisdom of simplicity!

Wash out your ego every once in a while — cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

Night lies beside me Chaste and cold as a sharp sword. It and I alone.

...the height of sophistication is simplicity.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.