Quotes About Purity

El sol se esconde para alzarse de nuevo, el día es engullido por la oscuridad de la noche para nacer de ella, tan puro como si nunca se hubiera apagado.

the shaven head and the man in white pants and the black woolen

Then you will not be ashamed to tell men and demons that you are sanctified, and are living a pure and holy life free from sin, a life that gives you power over the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Divinely bent to meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be mov'd, To draw him from his holy exercise.

He is divinely bent on meditation.

A maiden never bold;Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motionBlush'd at herself.

As chaste as unsunn'd snow.

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

But virtue, as it never will be mov'd,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,Will sate itself in a celestial bed,And prey on garbage.

O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.

The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.

Chaste as the icicleThat's curdied by the frost from purest snow,And hangs on Dian's temple.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.

If you touch these dead ones, if you have intercourse with the world, if you build up a friendship with it, and if you have your living among it, you are touching dead bodies. If you touch dead bodies, you will surely be infected and defiled with impurities.

Morality is the basis of all spirituality; if one is not morally pure, it is impossible to attain the highest spiritual fulfilment.

The reason she was crying didn't matter to me. Perhaps there was no reason at all. Her tears had that sort of purity.

I needed to pretend to be myself at a younger, more innocent age, when we had stood marveling at the snow in the hall. I was sure that Jun would dive into only pure water, and I wanted his dive into me to be perfect; I wanted him to enter with no splash at all.

He took a fine fresh fig from his pocket and washed it meticulously in a glass of water; then he peeled it open before our eyes. Inside, the beautiful fig was crawling with maggots. The imam concluded his lesson by saying, 'It's not a question of washing your bodies, but your souls, young men. If you're rotten inside, neither rivers nor oceans will suffice to make you clean.

Tous les Hommes sont sales d'une manière ou d'une autre. Seulement, il y a ceux qu'un simple verre d'eau suffit à laver, et ceux que tous les océans de la terre ne sauraient purifier.

il ne s'agit pas de laver son corps, mais son âme, jeunes gens. si vous êtes pourris de l'intérieur, ni les fleuves ni les océans ne sauraient vous désinfecter.

All men are dirty in one way or another. Only there are those who can be washed by a simple glass of water, and those who could not be purified by all the oceans of the earth.

Holy Lord, almighty and eternal Father, thank You for Your mercy that has protected me throughout this day. Let me pass through this night peacefully and with a pure mind and body, that rising with purity in the morning, I may serve You gratefully. Amen. —ALCUIN OF YORK (c. 735–804)

Even the rose, with its traditional connotations of fragrance and purity, can appear in different situations, which underlines the very important point that metaphor is primarily contextual.