Quotes About Purity

In view of the mess we have made of crystal-clear commands--the unity of the church, love as a mark of Christians, racial and economic justice, the importance of personal purity, the dangers of wealth--I tremble to think what we would do if some of the ambiguous doctrines were less ambiguous.

In other words, the proof of spiritual maturity is not how 'pure' you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Legalism may "work" in an institution such as a Bible college or the Marine Corps. In a world of ungrace, structured shame has considerable power. But there is a cost, an incalculable cost: ungrace does not work in a relationship with God. I have come to see legalism in its pursuit of false purity as an elaborate scheme of grace avoidance. You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

She was simpler, less fractured by life during her youth.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

The physician of the soul is aware that his patient will receive no nourishment unless he has been cleaned out; and the soul of the Great King himself, if he has not undergone this purification, is unclean and impure.

he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our own, something and someone still pure and whole, not corrupt, not savage, extraneous to hatred and terror; something difficult to define, a remote possibility of good, but for which it was worth surviving.

The glory our God receives, and will eternally receive, from having saved our souls doesn't come from all the good things we do for Him. His glory comes from creating people of purity and spiritual passion who once did things like that. Like we've done. Like you've done. Like I've done.

Strategy 7—Against Your Purity He tries to tempt you toward certain sins, convincing you that you can tolerate them without risking consequence, knowing they'll only wedge distance between you and God (Isa. 59:1–2).

One might sooner wash shit from shit than cleanse a soul so wicked!

Here we see philosophy brought to what is, in fact, a precarious position, which should be made fast even though it is supported by nothing in either heaven or earth. Here philosophy must show its purity as the absolute sustainer of its laws, and not as a herald of laws which implanted sense or who knows what tutelary nature whispers to it. –IMMANUEL KANT, FOUNDATIONS

Zealous men often confuse purity with intolerance, particularly when they're young.

Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

Goal 7: That each child grow up free from highly damaging sin

I should like to keep these simple joys inviolate, not because they are innocent, but because they are true

Dirt washes off more easily than blood

I hold no evil in my heart...This evil does not touch me. More may come, but not this. Not here. Not now.

I had never deflowered anyone before.

Classical dance is so pure and beautiful you don't need to add anything to its authenticity or beauty.

That's the attitude I approach everything with: I don't want there to be a lot of dressing on anything.

I'm all about the natural energy people have and having it without enhancement.

When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.