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Pure Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he…
- Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.
- If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent…
- A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart…
- The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the…
- When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with…
More Pure Quotes
- O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac
- I'm as pure as the driven slush. — Tallulah Bankhead
- But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside,… — Abu Bakar Bashir
- I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to… — Adele
- There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. — Nikolai Berdyaev
- You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements… — Henri Bergson