Quotes About Purity

The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.

To the pure, all things are pure.

On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Being a virgin doesn't mean you can't have a good time.

Möcht' ich ein Komet seyn? Ich glaube. Denn sie haben die Schnelligkeit der Vögel; sie blühen an Feuer, und sind wie Kinder in Reinheit. Größeres zu wünschen, kann nicht des Menschen Natur sich vermessen.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

It was only Christianity, with resentment against life in its foundations, which made sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning, on the prerequisite of our life

Only cast your pure eyes into the well of my delight, friends! You will not dim its sparkle! It shall laugh back at you with its purity.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

More honestly and purely speaks the healthy body, perfect and square-built; and it speaks of the meaning of the earth.-

There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this something is the most important thing of all. Because he does not understand it, his understanding is more childish than the child's and more simple than simplicity itself; in spite of the many clever wrinkles on his parchment face, and the masterly play of his fingers in unravelling the knots.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure." ? Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Es necesario ser un mar para poder recibir una sucia corriente sin volverse impuro.

Truly, a filthy stream man is. One must be a sea, to receive a filthy stream without becoming impure.

The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.

The pure in heart shall see God, because they always do His will. Purity does not begin in the body but in the will. From there it flows outward, cleansing thought, imagination, and, finally, the body. Bodily purity is a repercussion or echo of the will. Life is impure only when the will is impure.

Virginity among pagans meant a bodily condition, a physical intactness, a preserved isolation, to which there was nothing corresponding in the man. Hence pagans never glorified the virgin man, but only the virgin maid. But with Christianity, virginity ceased to mean physical intactness but unity. It meant not separation but relationship, not the will of another person alone, but also the will of God.

Our hearts will let in God, if we purify them. Blessings come to those who put themselves in an environment of love.

Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones.