Impure Quotes

81 quotes by 72 authors

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
If you will not determine to be pure, you will grow more and more impure. — George MacDonald
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and… — Richard J. Foster
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained… — Thomas Paine
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can… — P.J. O'Rourke
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and… — Wolfgang Ostwald
If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their… — Ruhollah Khomeini
That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably… — Daniel Quinn
The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love the impurity you… — Thaddeus Golas
If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus… — Gregory of Nyssa
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.… — Emile M. Cioran
All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life". — Friedrich Nietzsche
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox. — Gautama Buddha
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of… — Gautama Buddha
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the… — Gautama Buddha
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows… — Gautama Buddha
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. — George Bernard Shaw
Hell hath no fury like a frustrated fundamentalist whose God condemned him to "hell" for having "impure thoughts." — Michael R. Burch
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.… — Jasper Johns

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