And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. To lay down our desires… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“To constantly see one’s own (self) as ‘pure’, and to see other’s (self) as ‘pure’, is shuddha upayog (Pure applied awareness as… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Salafists are fundamentalists who dedicate their lives to religious preaching, converting non-believers and defending the strict moral codes of Islamic law. Salafists… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“THE LIGHT THAT NOW REFLECTS FROM WITHIN YOU RADIATES PURITY AND HOLINESS, WHICH CAUSES US TO BECOME A LIGHT TO THE WORLD.” — Garey Gordon Copy Share Image
The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“I trusted my husband so purely, as raindrops trust the ocean as they’re falling.” — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended… — Sufian Chaudhary Copy Share Image
Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder,… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image