Quotes About Purity

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly.

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

Without question, purity is beautiful. We're not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your dignity and worth.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.

A magazine once asked my favourite beauty product and I said water.

the wealth they had accumulated from retail needed to hide its origins, for it is well known that the purity of gold increases the further removed it is from labor.

We will become beings of light also, if we will only allow our self to reject all that is not of this light.

and my love for her was really just that pure, as simple and steady as the moon.

Righteousness is innocence that has been maintained in the presence of temptation.

Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?

For another thing, let us be certain of our own condition and never rest until we feel and know that we are sanctified ourselves. What are our tastes, choices, likings, and inclinations? This is the great test question. It matters little what we wish and hope and desire to be before we die. Where are we now? What are we doing? Are we sanctified or not? If not, the fault is all our own.

Most men hope to go to heaven when they die; but few, it may be feared, take the trouble to consider whether they would enjoy heaven if they got there. Heaven is essentially a holy place; it's inhabitants are all holy; it's occupations are all holy.

What is important for our children is that they stay pure in college and, perhaps, witness, have a quiet time, and pray regularly. Obviously, these are important. But for a disciple, the purpose of college is not just to get a job. Rather, it is to discover a vocation, to identify a field of study in and through which I can serve Christ as my Lord.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Though he loved the challenge and purity of traditional archery, he also couldn't separate himself from the adage he'd learned on the battlefield: exploit all technical and tactical advantages.

The psychiatrist marveled at Rosenberg's one-track mind, which could turn a conversation on any topic into a discourse on racial purity. "I was more than casually interested as a psychiatrist to find in Rosenberg an individual who had developed a system of thought differing greatly from known fact, who absolutely refused to amend his theories, and who, moreover, firmly believed in the magic of the words in which he had expressed them.

In Britain, Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809–98) opposed suffrage because to involve women in politics would be, he said, 'to trespass upon the delicacy, the purity, the refinement, the elevation of their nature'.

A really perfect poem has an infinitely small vocabulary.

A Lady in Waiting... Recklessly abandons herself to the Lordship of Christ Diligently uses her single days Trusts God with unwavering faith Demonstrates virtue in daily life Loves God with undistracted devotion Stands for physical and emotional purity Lives in security Responds to life in contentment Makes choices based on her convictions Waits patiently for God to meet her needs