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Quotes About Purity

A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.] And I come here alone. For five--seven--eighteen--forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry....' So it comes with all faiths.
~ Rudyard Kipling
If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. Like many millions of people, I am a bastard child of history. Perhaps we all are, black and brown and white, leaking into one another, as a character of mine once said, like flavours [sic] when you cook
~ Rushdie Salman
The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory
~ Mahatma Gandhi
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.
~ Yellow Tanabe
it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.
~ Harriet Martineau
Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Key to more success is a clean heart and a clean face.
~ DJ Khaled
The key to success is to stay clean at all times.
~ DJ Khaled
We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn.
~ Jonathan Ive
Il emportait un trésor de pieuses pensées, pourlesquelles le contact des folles joies de la mascherata eût été une profanation.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, astatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.
~ Alice Hoffman
Unleavened Bread, all
~ Alice Hoffman
He was pale as salt. Although
~ Alice McDermott
When Lindsey and I played Barbies Barbie and Ken got married at sixteen. To us there was only one true love in everyone's life we have no concept of compromise or retries.
~ Alice Sebold
Let things taste of what they are.
~ Alice Waters
Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Padala je kiša. Sitna kiša od koje je cijeli svijet bio vlažan. Meka kao poljubac djevice, kažu, iako se Cucak jedva sje?ao kakav je to osje?aj. Kiša
~ Joe Abercrombie
Now she was happy to be evil, if it meant she could be clean.
~ Joe Abercrombie
An important mark of saving faith, then, is that a convert not only wants to be delivered from the corruption of sin, but that he also hungers and thirsts after righteousness and holiness.
~ Joel R. Beeke