Quotes About Purity

Het zonlicht over de schouder van de winkelbediende was wit en gelijkmatig, en toen hij ons glazen water inschonk was het het helderste water dat ik ooit had gezien. Het was de onverdunde ziel van de wereld.

There is a kind of white that is more than white, and this was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that repels everything that is inferior to it, and that is almost everything. This was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that is not created by bleach but that itself is bleach. This was that kind of white. This white was aggressively white.

There is a kind of white that is more than white, and this was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that repels everything that is inferior to it, and that is almost everything. This was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that is not created by bleach but that itself is bleach. This was that kind of white. This white was aggressively white. It did its work on everything around it, and nothing escaped.

We are all children, Kheldar. --Cyradis

If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King;

I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

But no perfection is so absolute That some inpurity doth not pollute.

Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!

She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proof of chastity well armed, From love's weak, childish bow she lives uncharmed. She won't be assaulted by loving eyes, and she won't accept gifts of gold.

le spalle simili al bianco cuore di un fiore. [...]

fulfillment is always murky, insufficiently clear, devoid of the greatness and purity of the undertaking.

I like the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life.

I tell you, to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic.

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic.

I sang that tree's glory, its solid, unhurried purity, its slow beauty. Oh, that I could be like it, rooted to the ground but with my every hand raised up to God in praise!

No less important than the ideal of martyrdom was that of virginity, which also goes back to the first age of the Church. Indeed the two ideals were associated - first by the cult of virgin martyrs, like St. Agnes, which was so popular, and secondly by the idea that virginity was a kind of living martyrdom, a witness to the power of the faith to transcend human weakness.

Imperialist societies were governed by an essentially aggressive and militaristic attitude towards outside cultures, which they regarded as potential objects of conquest and economic gain. At their most extreme, they prohibited intermarriage with other cultures in order to preserve the "purity" of their own race.

When all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that is not Heaven.