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Quotes About Purity

Doar copiii ?i nebunii ?tiu s? nu mint?.
~ Emil Cioran
A simti impulsuri distructive nu inseamna ca esti rau,inseamna ca esti doar dezechilibrat. Poti sa fii bun si monstru,inger si asasin,in acelasi timp. Puritatea e compatibila cu instinctele cele mai inspaimantatoare.Feriti-va de cei care au fost cat pe ce sa fie sfinti!
~ Emil Cioran
He who is inclined to lust is merciful and tender-hearted; those who are inclined to purity are not so' (Saint John Climacus). It took a saint, neither more nor less, to denounce so distinctly and so vigorously not the lies but the very essence of Christian morality, and indeed of all morality.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Apaixonado pelos vocábulos, odiava os mistérios dos silêncios pesados e os tornava leves e puros: e ele próprio tornou-se leve e puro, já que aliviado e purificado de tudo. O vício de definir fez dele um assassino gracioso e uma vítima discreta.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Todo lo que no tiende a la pureza de la nada está embebido de una feroz vulgaridad
~ Emil M. Cioran
The caresses over which love presides are always pure.
~ balzac honore de v
The good man signed the papers with the innocence of a child who does what his mother orders without question.
~ balzac honore de viii
So thorough an old maid as Sylvie was certain to make good progress in the way of salvation.
~ balzac honore de xv
I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we were living and fighting for and why we needed to suffer and sacrifice. Those were the days when all of us were young, very pure and very sincere.
~ Bao Ninh
think of her innocence in
~ Barbara Delinsky
To the pure, all things are pure," Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus' best soothsayer voice, "and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.
~ Barbara Hambly
In sum, restoring notions of race mixture to center stage recommits us, willy-nilly, to the discredited idea of racial purity, the basic premise of bio-racism. The
~ Barbara J. Fields
The British minister, making his own inquiries, was told that if British troops landed before a German invasion or without a formal Belgian request, the Belgians would open fire. Belgium's rigid purity confirmed what the British never tired of repeating to the French—that everything depended upon the Germans violating Belgian neutrality first.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
~ James Sanborn
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Crickets are immaculately clean, harmless animals.
~ Sue Hubbell
I used to think Medium was a pretty pure place and then the MAGA hats started showing up here too.
~ Sarah Cooper
Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.
~ George MacDonald
Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed.
~ George MacDonald
There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler.
~ George MacDonald
Only a pure heart can understand, and a pure heart is one that sends out ready hands.
~ George MacDonald
Let us keep our shame and be made clean! Shame is not defilement, though a mean pride persuades men so. On the contrary, the man who is honestly ashamed has begun to be clean.
~ George MacDonald
for childhood is the deepest heart of humanity-its divine heart;
~ George MacDonald
The man who takes no count of what is fair, friendly, pure, unselfish, lovely, gracious,—where is his claim to call Jesus his master? where his claim to Christianity? What saves his claim from being merest mockery?
~ George MacDonald