Quotes About Purity

He prayed for purity, humility, love, and now it seemed to him that God heard his prayers. He had not lagged behind the times in knowledge. He now had neither love nor humility nor purity.

What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?

Temia como que manchar naquele meio impuro, vicioso, a imagem cândida que tinha na mente.

without any conscientious scruples condoning impurity in themselves, required ideal and angelic purity in their women...

He was only nine years old, he was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was dear to him, he protected it as the eyelid protects the eye, and did not let anyone into his soul without the key of love.

Il est doux de rêver à un idéal et de le bâtir dans sa pensée. Mais c'est encore, à dire le vrai, fort peu de chose. Qu'est-ce qu'un idéal qui n'est qu'un jeu, ou mettons même un rêve très pur ? Il faut le bâtir, après cela, dans l'existence.

The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

It is a peculiarly Renaissance conundrum that each and every deadly sin could happily join hands with the virtues, that the crimes of the body could coexist with a sincere desire for purity of soul.

Splurge on the sacred, skimp on the secular, and starve the profane.

The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt.

In no way did God want me to settle for one of the typical "jerks" who were a dime a dozen. He wanted me to save myself for a man who had His very nature and character within him. And He wanted me to trust Him enough to bring that special man to me in His perfect time.

As women, wea re given a great give: our purity. And everything that makes us who we are emotionally - our feminine nature, our sensitivity, our vulnerability, and our desire to give ourselves fully to one man - is part of that gift. Our purity is a treasure. it is so much more than just our physical virginity, it starts with who we are on the inside.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.

My purity manifests itself in countless ways, including an utter inability to sit idly when exposed to attacks on truth, reason, logic, and/or individual dignity.

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.

The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.

The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to the about-turns of the mind.

Soy feliz; este frío es tan puro, tan pura la noche; ¿no soy yo mismo una onda de aire helado? No tener ni sangre, ni linfa, ni carne. Deslizarse por este largo canal hacia aquella palidez. Ser sólo frío.

Lonely cries, and she was lonely, not for friends but for a time that hadn't been violated.