There is only a single step between impurity and purity.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

— Saint Augustine

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of…

— Georges Bernanos

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks…

— St. Jerome

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

— Vincent Van Gogh

In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted…

— Henry David Thoreau

Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.

— Frederick Lenz

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

— Anonymous

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

— Frederick Lenz

What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government…

— George Washington

The longest journey begins with a single step.

— Patanjali

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of…

— Thomas Jefferson

In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted…

— S. N. Goenka

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

— Charles Baudelaire

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of…

— Emile M. Cioran

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to…

— William O. Douglas