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Quotes About Purity

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
~ C.S. Lewis
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
~ Matthew Henry
God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.
~ Anselm of Canterbury
Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.
~ Pope Paul VI
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
~ John of the Cross
Mary is the lily in God's garden.
~ Bridget of Sweden
The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.
~ John of the Cross
...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.
~ Meister Eckhart
Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.
~ David A. Bednar
Pray to God and make your heart as pure as the star.
~ Sarada Devi
Abstinence is approved of God.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
God pours His oil into clean vessels!
~ Jentezen Franklin
God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments.
~ William Gurnall
It has to do with seeing God. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matthew 5:8).
~ John Piper
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God.
~ Hadewijch
Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.
~ Andy Stanley
If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
~ George MacDonald
The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.
~ Max Lucado
God's holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.
~ David F. Wells
Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.
~ John Keble
Without purity it's impossible to realize God.
~ Frederick Lenz