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Quotes About Purity

That "purity of youth" often turns out, as in the case of this rabbit, to be a frenzied dance—an indecipherable, sensual mishmash that casually combines murderous hatred with self-intoxication.
~ Osamu Dazai
Me cuesta entender que el ser humano viva o quiera vivir con pureza, claridad y felicidad en medio de toda esta mentira mutua.
~ Osamu Dazai
But the planes have a new elegant shape. Not one unnecessary ornament." "Yes," said Mabo softly and watched the planes fly off through the sky with a childlike innocence. "A form with no unneeded ornaments is nice.
~ Osamu Dazai
Anybody can be good in the country.
~ Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
~ Oscar Wilde
O, may my lips someday attain The primal muteness that I've sought - That's like a flawless crystal note, Its purity - from birth sustained.
~ Osip Mandelstam
The injunction, 'Show tolerance for the sake of God,' means to not hurt any creature while at the same time aiming toward not being hurt by any creature. This is a natural consequence of purity of heart. A poet has aptly expressed this as follows: This is the objective of humans and jinns in the garden of the world, To neither hurt anyone, nor to be hurt by anyone. From another perspective, it means: Abandon the world of causality and be content with the pleasure of the divine will.
~ Unknown
Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.
~ Oswald Chambers
Purity is not innocence, it is much more. Purity is the outcome of sustained spiritual sympathy with God. We have to grow in purity.
~ Oswald Chambers
No one can make himself pure by obeying laws. Jesus Christ does not give us rules and regulations—He gives us His teachings which are truths that can only be interpreted by His nature which He places within us. The great wonder of Jesus Christ's salvation is that He changes our heredity. He does not change human nature—He changes its source, and thereby its motives as well.
~ Oswald Chambers
renounce it as soon as it comes to mind—renounce everything in its entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all.
~ Oswald Chambers
There is no heaven that has a little corner of hell in it. God is determined to make you pure, holy, and right, and He will not allow you to escape from the scrutiny of the Holy Spirit for even one moment.
~ Oswald Chambers
Goodness and purity should never be traits that draw attention to themselves, but should simply be magnets that draw people to Jesus Christ. If my holiness is not drawing others to Him, it is not the right kind of holiness
~ Oswald Chambers
Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or for others, any practice that is not in keeping with a holy God. Holiness means absolute purity of your walk before God, the words coming from your mouth, and every thought in your mind—placing every detail of your life under the scrutiny of God Himself. Holiness is not simply what God gives me, but what God has given me that is being exhibited in my life.
~ Oswald Chambers
Stay far hence, far hence, you prudes!
~ Ovid
I have faith that yields to none, and ways without reproach, and unadorned simplicity, and blushing modesty.
~ Ovid
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
~ Ovid
And death is a thing much cleaner than vice.
~ Owen Wister
Nothing more, nothing less...
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
~ Padma Lakshmi
The master replied: Tsogyal, the empty essence of your awareness is not created by anyone. Without causes and conditions, it is originally present. Don't try to change or alter awareness. Let it remain exactly as it is! Thus you will be free from straying and awaken within the state of primordial purity.
~ Unknown
There is something so pleasingly pure about having a task to be accomplished and then accomplishing it. It is the exact opposite of writing, and pretty close to the opposite of teaching. In both writing and teaching, nothing is ever finished, only finished enough to let go.
~ Pam Houston
Aristocracy was linked to a nobility of mind, a purity of spirit, as well as inexhaustible courage.
~ Unknown