Impure Quotes

81 quotes by 72 authors

Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found. — Huineng
In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of… — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice. — Shunryu Suzuki
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for… — Augustus Hare
Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the… — Athenaeus
If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went… — Mary McCarthy
When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands. — Muhammad Iqbal
The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time,… — Kadmi Cohen
Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on our way out… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative… — Mata Amritanandamayi
All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man. — Wyndham Lewis
We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the… — Ezra Taft Benson
The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying… — Evagrius Ponticus
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He… — William Cowper
So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern,… — Lawren Harris
Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there… — Frederick Lenz
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,… — William Hazlitt
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same… — William O. Douglas
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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