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Quotes About Purity

The purity of unison singing, unaffected by alien motives of musical techniques, the clarity, unspoiled by the attempt to give musical art an autonomy of its own apart from the words, the simplicity and frugality, the humaneness and warmth of this way of singing is the essence of all congregational singing. This
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We are called both to live pure lives and to take the good news to those in greatest need.
~ Dillon Burroughs
For the first time in years he raised his eyes to the windows and saw, beyond the frozen roofs and under the crystal clear sky, the distant mountains gleaming, white with snow. They looked like silver clouds sailing gaily along, slow-moving, above the worries of the earth. He looked at them: for how long had he been oblivious to their existence? He thought, how different they are from us men, God, how pure and beautiful.
~ Dino Buzzati
Blushing is the color of virtue.
~ Diogenes
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
~ Diogenes the Cynic
I suggest that we should deal with sex, not from the standpoint of its wickedness, nor of its commonplaceness, but of its sacredness.
~ Dion Fortune
A Girl is gone! A Girl is lost! A simple Rustic Maiden but Yesterday swung upon the Pasture Gate, with Knowledge nowhere, yet is now, to-day, no better than her Mother, and her Mother's Mother before her! Soiled! Despoiled! Handled! Mauled! Rumpled! Rummaged! Ransacked! No purer than Fish in Sea, no sweater than Bird on Wing, no better than Beasts of Earth!
~ Djuna Barnes
Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;
~ Djuna Barnes
There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?
~ Djuna Barnes
If it's doubtful, it's dirty.
~ Doctor Bob Jones Senior
The key to longevity is the purity of one's heart.
~ Don Bradley
When he plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints.
~ Don Revie
Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
~ James Altucher
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
~ Richard Baxter
Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.
~ Karl Rahner
Where there is no purity, there is no Unity. Without Unity you cannot attain Divinity. Then your life is just a waste. First purity, next Unity, then you realize your Divinity.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.
~ Michio Kushi
When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself—a masterpiece of God.
~ Carl Schmitt
The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.
~ Jean Vanier
Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!
~ Smith Wigglesworth
If you decide to live a pure life, don't expect the world to understand your decision.
~ Jason Evert
We tread water, looking at each other, and suddenly there's not enough water in the world to clean away my dirty thoughts. She
~ Jennifer Niven