Quotes About Purity

Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers.

Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.

A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.

Fine-looking young chap, isn't he? Would have cut quite a dash as a dragoon but for his vocation as a virgin.

I call saintliness not a state but the moral procedure leading to it.

Slowly but surely I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

On les avait chassés ; ils étaient redevenus sauvages avec la pureté et la simplicité des bêtes.

He felt as if he had been washed from top to bottom, like a sheet scrubbed by a brush. He felt all white and full of new life. He walked the earth with a clean heart.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

Grâces au ciel, mes mains ne sont point criminelles. Plût aux dieux que mon cÅ"ur fût innocent comme elles!

It's a luxury to slough the dust of the road off your skin, to soap up and stand beneath a spray of warm water, to watch it pool at your feet, grimy and brown, before it circles the drain and disappears forever.

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

She liked the feeling of being winnowed down, as if there had been too much of her before, that anything unnecessary had been taken away and what was left was pure.

a girl as pale as the moon's reflection in a rain barrel.

He that feels pure, let him cast the first stone.

I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory making out and sleeping around, we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

Love purifies everything

If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.

She saw that Matavai Bay had become, in the hushed and balmy night, as smooth as a mirror. The entire canopy of stars above her was reflected perfectly in the water, as though there were two heavens now: one above, one below. The silence and purity of this was formidable. The beach felt heavy with presences. Had Ambrose ever seen such a thing while he was here? Two heavens, in one night? Had he ever felt this dread and wonderment, this sense of both loneliness and presence?

Together we will advance the historian's work beyond anything the world has ever seen. There is no purity like the purity of the sufferings of history. You will have what every historian wants: history will be reality to you. We will wash our minds clean blood.

Politicians who talk about purity usually end up deciding who is pure and who is not.