Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“You who won’t allow one per cent of impurity into an alloy of metal,” the unforgotten voice was saying to him, “what… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you -… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Impurities are constantly and imperceptibly passing from the body, through the pores, and if the surface of the skin is not kept… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Regardless of your chosen faith, at the end of your life's journey, your heart will be measured in two ways. One, the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If your breath is very deep in the lungs, it will give you a good red blood. Good red blood, with the… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath.… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
