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Quotes About Purity

Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.
~ Alice Glass
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
~ Coventry Patmore
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
~ Josh Billings
Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
~ James A. Baldwin
The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.
~ Giorgio Armani
Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.
~ F.B. Meyer
Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.
~ Ephrem the Syrian
Your heart is pure, your soul is free. Be on your way, don't wait for me.
~ Celine Dion
A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
~ Virginia Woolf
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
~ Alexander Pope
The Age of Aquarius is the age of excellence in which personal purity shall absolutely matter.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
A clean mind always delivers power.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.
~ Ammianus Marcellinus
When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy.
~ Frederick Lenz
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is better to seek purity than the pleasure of sin.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.
~ Stormie Omartian
Be like a fresh flowing stream.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita