Purity Quotes · Page 15

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold…

— Swami Vivekananda

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

— Rudolf Nureyev

There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed,…

— Max Heindel

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

— John of the Cross

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as…

— Thomas Paine

The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity…

— Che Guevara

Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

— George Herbert

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every…

— John Adams

The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

— Ravi Zacharias

Be purity of life the test, leave to the heart, to heaven the rest.

— Charles Sprague Sargent

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

Eureka! Eureka! Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery…

— Archimedes

You mean was an instant of my purity worth a lifetime of your lies?

— Mickey Knox

White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for…

— Tae Yun Kim

Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by the brilliancy…

— Paul of the Cross

Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the…

— Shane Claiborne

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

— John of the Cross

Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on…

— David Macbeth Moir

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

— Henry David Thoreau

[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the…

— Indira Gandhi

Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away…

— Gustave Flaubert

The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical…

— D. H. Lawrence

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

— Mahatma Gandhi