Impurity Quotes

42 quotes by 35 authors

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry. — Swami Vivekananda
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a… — Tertullian
The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to… — Pope Pius XII
Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour,… — Rajneesh
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
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute. — William Shakespeare
We are not naÃ¯ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their… — Jean Rostand
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we… — Saul Bellow
Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another. — Gautama Buddha
The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure. — Gautama Buddha
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that… — Georges Bernanos
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual… — Marina Warner
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of… — St. Jerome
Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls. — Pope Pius XII
As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace. — Josemaria Escriva
In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some… — Alphonsus Liguori
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which… — John Milton
The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity. — Charles Spurgeon
Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself through confession, tears,… — Gregory Palamas

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