By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.

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

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

— Saint Augustine

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

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Anonymous

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

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.”

— Henry David Thoreau

As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up…

— Henry David Thoreau

So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower,…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Charles Baudelaire

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