Quotes About Purity

Lord, I don't want to entertain sin in my heart. I want my heart to be right before You so that You will always hear my prayers. I know I don't do everything perfectly, so I ask that by the power of Your Holy Spirit You will enable me to keep my heart pure and my hands clean. Thank You for loving me and helping me do what is right in Your sight.

What is in our hearts when we pray has more effect on whether our prayers are answered than the actual prayer itself. That's why, when we come before God to pray, He asks us to first confess anything in our hearts that shouldn't be there. He does that so nothing will separate us from Him.

People say love gets fouled by a difference big as ours. I didn't know for sure whether Miss Sarah's feelings came from love or guilt. I didn't know whether mine came from love or a need to be safe. She loved me and pitied me. And I loved her and used her. It never was a simple thing. That day, our hearts were pure as they ever would get.

Our religion might preach love, but it was based on purity. God was holy and pure; therefore we must be holy and pure. But here was a poor mamzer saying God is love; therefore we must be love.

I am the whore and the holy woman I am the wife and the virgin

But even that didn't fully explain him. I knew of no one who put compassion above holiness. Our religion might preach love, but it was based on purity. God was holy and pure; therefore we must be holy and pure. But here was a poor mamzer saying God is love; therefore we must be love. I said, "You speak as if God's kingdom is not just a place on earth, but a place inside us." "So I believe.

Not frail or insubstantial, but distilled, concentrated.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

for Christians typical dating can often be a swerver - an approach to relationships that wants to go in a different direction than the one God has for us.

True love waits, but not just for sex. It waits for the right time to commit to God's brand of love—unwavering, unflagging, and totally committed.

Look for, and work on becoming, a man or woman who, as a single, seeks God wholeheartedly, putting Him before anything else. Don't worry about impressing the opposite sex. Instead, strive to please and glorify God. Along the way you'll catch the attention of people with the same priorities.

We should never use spiritual activities as a way to grab for more intimacy than is appropriate for our relationship.

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy.

no hay nadie que tenga el alma limpia, nadie ante quien sea posible desnudarse sin vergüenza

El seductor e insondable camino de la impureza. Quizás sólo por él se puede llegar a la pureza.

Es curioso cómo la felicidad pura, sin adulterar, no deja poso en nuestros corazones, mientras que las aguas turbias de la tristeza manchan por doquier.

Imagen alta y tierna del consuelo, aurora de mis mares de tristeza, lis de paz con olores de pureza, ¡premio divino de mi largo duelo!

Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.

You should always read the ingredients in coconut water. It should say 100% coconut water.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.