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Quotes About Purity

Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy (Isa. 52:11).
~ Smith Wigglesworth
The Holy Spirit is coming to take out of the world a church that is a perfect bride. He must find in us perfect yieldedness, with every desire subjected to Him.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Thought for today: We are saved, called with a holy calling-called to be saints, holy, pure, Godlike, sons with power.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Possess patience to such an extent that you can suffer anything for the church, for your friends, for your neighbors, or for anyone. Remember this: we build character in others as our character is built. As we are pure in our thoughts, are tender and gracious to other people, and possess our souls in patience (Luke 21:19), then people have a great desire for our fellowship in the Holy Spirit.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
An honest man is always a child.
~ Socrates
Lineage serves as a crucial safeguard: It maintains the authenticity and purity of the teaching.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Be free of attachment and aversion. Keep your mind pure. And unite your mind with the Buddha.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
the original ground: the primordial purity of natural simplicity.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
A mirror has a clean light that reflects everything as it is. It symbolizes the stainless mind of the kami, and at the same time is regarded as a sacred symbolic embodiment of the fidelity of the worshipper towards the kami.
~ Sokyo Ono
What message may I take from you to the young people in Zion?" The answer was quick and positive. "Tell them," said the doomed man, "to keep their lives so full of good works that there will be no room for evil.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
~ Sri Aurobindo
When mind is still, then Truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
~ Sri Aurobindo
My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.
~ Sri Chinmoy
If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
You must be a Lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
La sociedad nazi futura debía ser construida alrededor de la «raza pura», la sociedad comunista futura alrededor de un pueblo proletario purificado de toda escoria burguesa.
~ Stéphane Courtois
Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.
~ St. Augustine
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
~ St. Augustine
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
So the Church too, like Mary, enjoys perpetual virginity and uncorrupted fecundity.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
~ St. Jerome
Let's make the best possible use of our feet first and learn to know ourselves. And yet it seems to me that we will never know ourselves unless we seek to know God. Glimpsing his greatness, we recognize our own powerlessness; gazing upon his purity, we notice where we are impure; pondering his humility, we see how far from humble we are.
~ St. Teresa of Avila