Quotes About Purity

Why do they even call it that, "saving yourself"? Like we need to be rescued from sex? It's not like virgins spend their whole lives engaged in the sacred ceremony of "being saved" from intercourse.

The detailed gorgeousness of Orthodoxy was the reversed image of the sparse purity of Islam.

The detailed gorgeousness of Orthodoxy was the reversed image of the sparse purity of Islam. One offered the abstract simplicity of the desert horizon, a portable worship that could be performed anywhere as long as you could see the sun, a direct contact with God, the other images, colors, and music, ravishing metaphors of the divine mystery designed to lead the soul to heaven. Both were equally intent on converting the world to their vision of God.

Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest...

The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.

Jesus was no cold Superman—he was more human than any of us. Entirely pure, unweakened by evil, he was loving and open to the core. His ardor, truth, sensitivity, power, capacity for joy and pain were unlimited, and everything that happened to him happened in the immeasurableness of his divinity.

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.

what would it be like—to see the world like that? To love nature and people in such a pure way that it would never occur to her to ask what they could do for her? Emma knew that Stevie was terribly vulnerable—things made her cry so easily.

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A verdade é que minha mãe era cândida como a primeira aurora, anterior ao primeiro pecado.

Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

When your intentions are pure, so too will be your success.

You can have what you desire if it is a holy dream.

There is no secret ingredient

Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!

Eschew evil and it's machinations.

my life too would become a new song, a life as pure and straightforward and simple as a glass of water on a hot day.

Llevaba un hermoso vestido rojo, pero lo que vi era incluso más valioso. Yo era fuerte. Era pura. Albergaba en mi interior unos pensamientos genuinos que nadie podría arrebatarme jamás. Yo era como el viento.

Mientras puedas mirar al cielo sin temor, sabrás que eres puro por dentro y que, pase lo que pase, volverás a ser feliz.

We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.

Quiero llevar a cabo mis propios descubrimientos. No necesito drogas ni estimulantes artificiales. Sin embargo quiero experimentar esas mismas cosas con June, penetrar en la maldad que me atrae. Busco la vida, y las experiencias que deseo; se me niegan porque tengo en mí una fuerza que las neutraliza. Conozco a June, la seudoprostituta, y se vuelve pura.

Could she love such an unstormy sky as his eyes, such a downy and untarnished skin, such a candid smile?